Birds of Vietnam, Bird Species in Vietnam

Cuc Phuong National Park, Ninh Binh, Vietnam

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The pipits are a cosmopolitan genus, Anthus, of small passerine birds with medium to long tails.

The genus name Anthus is from Latin and is the name for a small bird of grasslands.

1/ Rosy Pipit (Chim Manh Hồng, Anthus roseatus)
2/ Red-throated Pipit (Chim manh họng đỏ, Anthus cervinus)
3/ New Zealand Pipit (Anthus novaeseelandiae)
4/ Water Pipit (Chim manh Nhật Bản, Anthus spinoletta)
5/ Tree Pipit (Chim manh Vân Nam, Anthus trivialis)
6/ American-Pipit (Manh lưng đỏ, Anthus rubescens)
7/ Richard's pipit (Anthus richardi, Manh lớn)
8/ Paddyfield pipit or Oriental pipit (Anthus rufulus)
Chim Manh
9/ Olive-backed pipit (Anthus hodgsoni)
Chim manh Vân Nam
10/ Upland pipit (Anthus sylvanus)

Citrine Wagtail 
(Chìa vôi đầu vàng, Motacilla citreola)

The citrine wagtail (Motacilla citreola) is a small songbird in the family Motacillidae.

Passeriformes, Passerina, passerina: Latin passerinus sparrow-like, (i.e. sparrow-sized) (passer sparrow).
Motacillidae, Motacilla: From Latin motacilla (“wagtail”), the word is a diminutive of motare, "to move about".
The term citrine, and the specific name citreola, refers to its yellowish colouration, citreola is Latin for "lemon yellow".

Western Yellow Wagtail 
(Motacilla flava, Chìa vôi vàng Phuong Tay)

The western yellow wagtail (Motacilla flava) is a small passerine bird in the wagtail family Motacillidae.

Passeriformes, Passerina, passerina: Latin passerinus sparrow-like, (i.e. sparrow-sized) (passer sparrow).
Motacillidae, Motacilla: From Latin motacilla (“wagtail”), the word is a diminutive of motare, "to move about".
The specific flava is Latin for golden-yellow.

Eastern yellow wagtail 
(Motacilla tschutschensis, Chìa vôi vàng Phuong Dong)

The eastern yellow wagtail (Motacilla tschutschensis) is a small passerine in the wagtail family Motacillidae.

Passeriformes, Passerina, passerina: Latin passerinus sparrow-like, (i.e. sparrow-sized) (passer sparrow).
Motacillidae, Motacilla: From Latin motacilla (“wagtail”), the word is a diminutive of motare, "to move about".
The specific epithet tschutschensis is from the locality, the Chukchi Peninsula is eastern Russia.

Mekong Wagtail
(Motacilla samveasnae)

The Mekong wagtail (Motacilla samveasnae) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae.
The bird is found in the Mekong valley of Cambodia and Laos, and is a non-breeding visitor to Thailand and Vietnam.

Passeriformes, Passerina, passerina: Latin passerinus sparrow-like, (i.e. sparrow-sized) (passer sparrow).
Motacillidae, Motacilla: From Latin motacilla (“wagtail”), the word is a diminutive of motare, "to move about".

Motacilla is a genus of passerine birds commonly known as the wagtails in the family Motacillidae. 

The Wagtails, the pipits and longclaws form the family Motacillidae (Họ Chìa vôi).
Passeriformes, Passerina, passerina: Latin passerinus sparrow-like, (i.e. sparrow-sized) (passer sparrow).
Motacillidae, Motacilla: From Latin motacilla (“wagtail”).

Eurasian Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus, Chim mò sò) belongs to Haematopodidae family, Haematopus genus.

The bird is a visiting winter bird, uncommonly sighted at the Xuan Thuy National Park.

Great Thick-knee (Great stone-curlew) (Esacus recurvirostris, Rẽ mỏ to) belongs to Burhinidae family, Esacus genus.

The bird is a visiting winter bird, uncommonly sighted at the Xuan Thuy National Park.

Pheasant-tailed jacana 
(Gà lôi nước, Hydrophasianus chirurgus)

The pheasant-tailed jacana (Hydrophasianus chirurgus) is a jacana in the monotypic genus Hydrophasianus.


Jacana From specific name Parra jacana; Portuguese name Jaçana for the Wattled
Jacana.
The genus Hydrophasianus means "water pheasant".
chirurgus Latin chirurgus surgeon (Greek kheirourgos surgeon).

Red-necked phalarope 
(Dẽ cổ đỏ, Rẽ cổ đỏ, Phalaropus lobatus), also known as the northern phalarope and hyperborean phalarope

Red-necked Phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus, Rẽ cổ đỏ) is a medium-sized wader, Scolopacidae family, Phalaropus genus.

This bird breeds in the Arctic regions of North America and Eurasia. 
It is migratory, unusually winters at sea on tropical oceans.


The bird is a pass-through winter bird, uncommonly sighted at the Xuan Thuy National Park.

The term Charadriiformes comes from New Latin, combining the Greek word kharadrios ("a bird of river valleys" or "a bird of ravines") and the Latin suffix -formes meaning "forms" or "shaped like". Therefore, Charadriiformes translates to "birds shaped like or resembling the charadrius," which is a type of plover or stone curlew historically found in dry river beds or ravines. 

The word Scolopacidae is New Latin, derived from the genus name Scolopax (Latin for "snipe" or "woodcock") and the common zoological suffix for family names, -idae.

Phalaropus (the genus name for phalaropes) comes from Ancient Greek: phalaris (meaning "coot") + pous (meaning "foot"), essentially translating to "coot-footed," because these birds have lobed toes like coots, a key feature for their swimming and feeding style. 

The English and genus names come through French phalarope.

Lobatus is a Latin term meaning "having lobes" or "lobed," derived from the Greek lobos (lobe, pod, earlobe), used in biology for organisms or parts with rounded, protruding divisions, like the lobed toes of a phalarope or the divisions in a conch shell, often describing a "tongue-shaped" or divided structure.

Ruff (Rẽ lớn, Calidris pugnax)
formerly placed in different genera and was known as: Tringa pugnax, Philomachus pugnax

The ruff (Calidris pugnax) is a medium-sized wading bird that breeds in marshes and wet meadows across northern Eurasia.
The bird is migratory often found winering in southern and western Europe, Africa, southern Asia and Australia.

Charadriidae, Charadrius: Late Latin word for a yellowish bird mentioned in the fourth-century Vulgate; from Ancient Greek kharadrios a bird found in ravines and river valleys (kharadra, "ravine").

The word Scolopacidae is New Latin, derived from the genus name Scolopax (Latin for "snipe" or "woodcock") and the common zoological suffix for family names, -idae.

The genus name Calidris is from Ancient Greek kalidris or skalidris, a term used by Aristotle for some grey-coloured waterside birds.

The specific epithet refers to the aggressive behaviour of the bird at its mating arenas — pugnax from the Latin term for "combative".
The English name is derived from the ruff, an exaggerated collar fashionable from the mid-sixteenth century to the mid-seventeenth century, since the male bird's neck ornamental feathers resemble the neck-wear.

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