Birds of Vietnam, Bird Species in Vietnam

Cuc Phuong National Park, Ninh Binh, Vietnam Let's join AdventureGreen on our bird quests to learn about the different birds and bird species in Vietnam. Here you can find out more about the birding spots that these bird species are found.

Black-throated laughingthrush 
(Khướu bạc má, Pterorhinus chinensis)
earlier placed in the genus Garrulax.

The black-throated laughingthrush (Pterorhinus chinensis) is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae.
The bird is found in Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. 

Compare:

  • Black-throated laughingthrush (Khướu bạc má, Pterorhinus chinensis): black hair stretches along the throat to the breast.
  • White-Cheeked Laughingthrush (Khướu đầu xám, Pterorhinus vassali): Black hair does not stretch into the breast.

Leiothrix Leiothrichidae Ancient Greek leios meaning "smooth" and thrix meaning "hair".
The name of the genus Pterorhinus combines the Ancient Greek pteron meaning "feather" with rhinos meaning "nostrils".

Black-Hooded Laughingthrush 
(Khướu đầu đen, Garrulax milleti)

Leiothrix Leiothrichidae Ancient Greek leios meaning "smooth" and thrix meaning "hair".
Garrulax comes from Latin garrire "to chatter".

The black-hooded laughingthrush is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae.
Traits: black bill, head, throat and breast, white behind eyes, white ring between neck and body.

Lesser necklaced laughingthrush 
(Khướu khoang cổ, Garrulax monileger)


The lesser necklaced laughingthrush (Garrulax monileger) is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae.
The bird is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam.


Leiothrix Leiothrichidae Ancient Greek leios meaning "smooth" and thrix meaning "hair".
Garrulax comes from Latin garrire "to chatter"; Latin garrulus: babbling, chattering; -ax inclining towards.
monileger
 monīle (genitive monīlis): necklace, collar.
 leger Borrowed from French léger, assumed to be from Latin leviarius, from levis (“light in weight”).

Orange-breasted laughingthrush (Garrulax annamensis)
Khướu ngực hồng

Leiothrix Leiothrichidae Ancient Greek leios meaning "smooth" and thrix meaning "hair".
Garrulax comes from Latin garrire "to chatter".

Orange-breasted laughingthrush is a bird species native to Da Lat Plateau (Di Linh Plateau).

Collared laughingthrush 
(Khướu đầu đen má xám, Trochalopteron yersini)


Leiothrix Leiothrichidae Ancient Greek leios meaning "smooth" and thrix meaning "hair".
The name Trochalopteron combines the Ancient Greek trokhalos meaning "round" or "bowed" with pteron meaning "wing".

The collared laughingthrush, endemic to Vietnam, is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae.

Short-tailed scimitar babbler 
(Khướu mỏ dài, Napothera danjoui) 

The short-tailed scimitar babbler, found in Laos and Vietnam, is a species of bird in the family Pellorneidae or the jungle babblers. 

Some consider the Indochinese Wren-Babbler (Rimator danjoui, Jabouilleia danjoui, Napothera danjoui danjoui, Napothera danjoui parvirostris) a subspecies of the Short-Tailed Scimitar Babbler.


Napothera:
Ancient Greek term napos (νάπος), meaning "timbered valley"
Thera borrowed from Latin Thēra, from Ancient Greek Θήρᾱ (Thḗrā): Thira, Santorini (an island in the Cyclades, Greece).
Greek θήρα, ας, ἡ, thēra: hunting, the chase.
Thera Alternative spelling of Thira, Santorini (an island in Greece).
Greek napos ravine, gully; -theras hunter (therao: to hunt).

Phyllergates is a genus of tailorbirds of the family Cettiidae in the bird order Passeriformes.

Common (or Long-tailed) Tailorbird 
(Chích bông đuôi dài, Orthotomus sutorius)

Cisticolidae, Cisticolas (pronounced sis-TIC-olas): from Ancient Greek kisthos, "rock-rose", and Latin colere, "to dwell".
Orthotomus from the Ancient Greek orthotomeō, meaning 'to cut straight'.
The scientific name sutorius means "cobbler" rather than "tailor".

The common tailorbird is a songbird found across tropical Asia: upright tail, greenish upper body plumage and rust coloured forehead and crown.

 

Black-crowned fulvetta 
(Schoeniparus klossi)
Lách tách gáy đen

Schoeniparus
The black-crowned fulvetta, endemic to Vietnam, is a bird species in the family Pellorneidae of the order Passeriformes.

Schoenus (Latin: schœnus; Greek: σχοίνος, schoinos, lit. "rush rope"; Ancient Egyptian: i͗trw, lit. "river-measure") was an ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman unit of length and area based on the knotted cords first used in Egyptian surveying.
schoeni: plural of schoenus
-parus bearing, equivalent. to par(ere) to bear, bring forth + -us adjective, adjectival suffix; see -ous
parus or paru menas tit or chickadee.bir

Black-headed parrotbill 
(Paradoxornis margaritae)
Khướu mỏ dẹt đầu đen

The black-headed parrotbill, found in subtropical or tropical moist montane forests in eastern Cambodia and southern Vietnam, belongs to the distinct family Paradoxornithidae.

Margarita, margaritae: In Latin from the Greek word margaritari (μαργαριτάρι), meaning pearl.

Yellow-bellied prinia 
(Chiền chiện bụng vàng, Prinia flaviventris)
The yellow-bellied prinia is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae.

Cisticoladae from Cisticola, which is from Ancient Greek kisthos, "rock-rose", and Latin colere, "to dwell". ... cisticola)
flaviventris: New Latin; from flāvus (“yellow”) +‎ venter (“belly”)

Ashy bulbul 
(Cành cạch xám, Hemixos flavala) 
The ashy bulbul (Hemixos flavala) is a species in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae.

Some consider the brown-backed bulbul a subspecies of the ashy bulbul.


Pycnonotidae
pycno-
 Pycnonotus
 puknos "thick" or "compact" and 
 -nōtos "-backed".

 

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