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.

(Gà lôi trắng, Lophura nycthemera)
A species of pheasant found in forests, mainly in mountains, of mainland Southeast Asia and eastern and southern China.

It was placed in the genus Phasianus. 
For some time it was placed either in Euplocamus or Gennceus.
Today all major authorities place the silver pheasant in Lophura.

A male silver pheasant at a rescue center at Cuc Phuong National Park
A male silver pheasant at a rescue center at Cuc Phuong National Park

Japanese thrush 
(Turdus cardis)
grey thrush or the Japanese grey thrush
Hoét bụng trắng

The Japanese thrush (Turdus cardis) is a species of bird in the thrush family Turdidae.
Male: Black head and neck, ashy back, white belly blotched with black stains.
Female: Yellowish gray head and back, blotched breast with white and black, white and yellowish belly blotched with black stains.
Immature: Back like female, speckled with brownish neck, white and yellowish belly.

A male Japanese Thrush at Cuc Phuong National Park
A male Japanese Thrush at Cuc Phuong National Park

Black-breasted thrush 
Turdus dissimilis
Hoét ngực đen
dissimilis: Latin: unlike, dissimilar, different (as the opp. of similis and consimilis

The black-breasted thrush (Turdus dissimilis) is a species of bird in the family Turdidae.

Male: The section from their head to the back of their neck and breast area is black, and the remaining areas at the top are slate gray. 
Female: Gray-brown from the eyes to the tail, and the section from their throat to their breast is a "diffused" or streaked shade of buff.

Fujian niltava 
(Đớp ruồi cằm đen, Niltava davidi)

The Fujian niltava (Niltava davidi) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae.

A Fujian niltava at Cuc Phuong
A Fujian niltava at Cuc Phuong

Traits:
- Stripe-breasted: a white stripe (line) on the breast of the female, between the lower neck and upper breast;


The genus name Niltava is from the Nepali word Niltau for the rufous-bellied niltava.

The green peafowl or Indonesian peafowl (Pavo muticus) is a peafowl species native to the tropical forests of Southeast Asia and Indochina.

Pavo: From Latin pāvō, likely borrowed from Ancient Greek ταώς (taṓs, “peacock”, peafowl), or possibly imitative (compare paupulō (“to call like a peacock”)).

Muticus: possibly Proto-Indo-European *mut- (“cut short”). Compare muticus (“docked”), Scottish Gaelic mutach (“short”), Ancient Greek μίτυλος (mítulos, “hornless”), μιστύλλω (mistúllō, “something cut up”). Possibly due to the Japanese painting depicting the bird without spurs that Carl Linnaeus based on to classify the fowl as Pavo muticus. 

A male Green Peafowl at Cuc Phuong
A male Green Peafowl at Cuc Phuong

 

A pair of Green Peafowls at Cuc Phuong
A pair of Green Peafowls at Cuc Phuong

The European robin (Erithacus rubecula), robin or robin redbreast in Great Britain and Ireland, is a small insectivorous passerine bird that belongs to the chat subfamily of the Old World flycatcher family.

The name is normally applied to the more robust ground-feeding flycatchers found in Europe and Asia.
These species were formerly classified as members of the thrush family (Turdidae), but now placed in the Old World flycatcher family (Muscicapidae).
Chats make up most of the sub-family Saxicolinae, or commonly known as bush chat.

The European robin or simply robin belongs to the Chat sub-family.

Dendronanthus, or forest wagtail, is a wagtail genus in the family Motacillidae.
It has some distinct features:
- a distinctive plumage that sets it apart from other wagtails, 
- has the habit of wagging its tail sideways unlike the usual up and down movements of the other wagtail species,
- is the only wagtail species that nests in trees.

Dendronanthus: "Dendron" (δένδρον) is the Greek word for "tree"; Anthus introduced for the pipits.

1/ Forest Wagtail (Chìa vôi rừng, Dendronanthus indicus)

The flowerpeckers, once included in an enlarged sunbird family Nectariniidae, are a family, Dicaeidae, of passerine birds.

Dicaeidae, Dicaeum: Greek dikaion supposedly an Indian bird mentioned by Aelianus.

The genus Chloropsis is the single genus in the family of leafbirds (Chloropseidae) of small passerine bird species found in the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. 
Chloropseidae Chloropsis In Greek mythology, the name Chloris (/ˈklɔːrɪs/; Greek Χλωρίς Chlōrís, from χλωρός chlōrós, meaning "greenish-yellow", "pale green", "pale", "pallid", or "fresh").

1/ Blue-winged leafbird (Chloropsis moluccensis)
Chim xanh Nam Bộ

2/ Golden-fronted leafbird (Chloropsis aurifrons)
Chim xanh trán vàng

3/ Orange-bellied leafbird (Chloropsis hardwickii)
Chim xanh bụng vàng

The cochoas (from cocho, Nepali for Cochoa purpurea) are medium-sized frugivorous, insectivorous and molluscivorous birds in the genus Cochoa. 
previously included in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.

1/ Purple cochoa (Cochoa purpurea)
Cô cô đầu xám

2/ Green cochoa (Cochoa viridis)
Cô cô xanh

True thrushes are medium-sized mostly insectivorous or omnivorous birds in the genus Turdus of the wider thrush family, Turdidae. The genus name Turdus is Latin for "thrush".

1/ Grey-backed thrush (Turdus hortulorum)
Hoét lưng đen

2/ Japanese thrush (Turdus cardis), grey thrush or the Japanese grey thrush
Hoét bụng trắng

A male Japanese thrush at the Cuc Phuong National Park Vietnam
A male Japanese thrush at the Cuc Phuong National Park Vietnam

3/  Chinese blackbird (Turdus mandarinus)
Hoét đen

4/ Black-breasted thrush (Turdus dissimilis)
Hoét ngực đen
dissimilis: Latin: unlike, dissimilar, different (as the opp. of similis and consimilis

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