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.

The Old World orioles (Oriolidae) are an Old World family of passerine birds.
"Oriole" derives from the Latin word aureolus meaning "golden".

The family Oriolidae comprises the piopios, figbirds, pitohuis and the Old World orioles.

The genus Sitta comprise the nuthatches which are small passerine birds belonging to the family Sittidae.

1/ Indian nuthatch (Trèo cây bụng hung, Sitta castanea)
From Ancient Greek kastáneia, from kástana meaning chestnut or chestnut tree.
This species has been split by Rasmussen and Anderton (2005) from the chestnut-bellied nuthatch.

2/ Chestnut-vented nuthatch (Trèo cây đít hung, Sitta nagaensis)
 The species name is composed of naga and the Latin suffix -ensis, "that lives in, that inhabits," was given in reference to the area when the type of the species was collected, the Naga Hills.

3/ White-tailed nuthatch (Trèo cây Himalaya, Sitta himalayensis)

4/ Beautiful nuthatch (Trèo cây lưng đen, Sitta formosa)
The name derives from the Latin name Formosus and Spanish word "fermoso", meaning "beautiful".

5/ Yellow-billed nuthatch (Trèo cây mỏ vàng, Sitta solangiae)

6/ Velvet-fronted nuthatch (Trèo cây trán đen, Sitta frontalis)
Latin word meaning "frontal" (= relating to the forehead).

 

The nuthatches constitute a genus, Sitta, of small passerine birds belonging to the family Sittidae.
The nuthatches are all in the genus Sitta, a name derived from sitte, Ancient Greek for this bird.
The English term nuthatch refers to the propensity of some species to wedge a large insect or seed in a crack and hack at it with their strong bills.

Mirafra is a genus of lark in the family Alaudidae. Some Mirafra species are called "larks", while others are called "bush larks". They are found from Africa through South Asia to Australia.
The derivation of the genus name is unknown.

1/ Indochinese bush lark (Sơn ca Đông Dương, Mirafra erythrocephala) or Indochinese lark
The prefix erythr- or erythro- means red or reddish. It is derived from the Greek word eruthros meaning red.
cephalo- or cephal-N ew Latin, from Greek kephalo-, from kephalē, head

2/ Singing bush lark or Horsfield's bush lark (Sơn ca Java, Mirafra javanica)

3/ Bengal bush lark (Sơn ca Thái lan, Mirafra assamica) or Bengal lark, rufous-winged lark

Alauda is a genus of larks found across much of Europe, Asia and in the mountains of north Africa...
The current genus name is from Latin alauda, "lark".

1/ Oriental skylark (Alauda gulgula), also known as the small skylark,
eastern skylark, Indian skylark and lesser skylark.
The meaning of the specific epithet gulgula is uncertain but is perhaps a reference to the song as gula is Latin for "throat" or may be the color of the "gulgula" or a sweet.

Larks are passerine birds of the family Alaudidae.

Spinus is a genus of passerine birds in the finch family Fringillidae.
The genus name is from the Ancient Greek spinos, a name for a now-unidentifiable bird.
All of the species in the genus, except for the Tibetan serin, were formerly included in the genus Carduelis. 

1/ Eurasian siskin (Sẻ thông Siskim, Spinus spinus)
The English name is from German dialect sisschen or zeischen.

The greenfinches are small passerine birds in the genus Chloris in the subfamily Carduelinae within the Fringillidae.
The greenfinches were formerly placed in the genus Carduelis.
The genus name is from Ancient Greek khloris, the European greenfinch, from khloros, "green".

1/ Black-headed greenfinch (Sẻ núi, Chloris ambigua)
The specific epithet ambigua is from the Latin ambiguus for "doubtful".

2/ Vietnamese greenfinch (Chloris monguilloti)
the specific epithet was chosen to honour Maurice Antoine François Monguillot, the General Secretary of French Indochina.

 

The genus Procarduelis is a genus of passerine birds in the finch family Fringillidae.

1/ Dark-breasted rosefinch (Sẻ hồng Nê pan, Procarduelis nipalensis)
 formerly placed in the genus Carpodacus.

The genus Fringilla is a small group of finches from the Old World, which are the only species in the subfamily Fringillinae.
The genus name Fringilla is Latin for "finch".

1/  Brambling (Sẻ núi, Sẻ đồng đầu đen, Sẻ đồng họng hồng, Fringilla montifringilla) 
Montifringilla is from Latin mons, montis mountain.

The rosefinches are a genus, Carpodacus, of passerine birds in the finch family Fringillidae.
The genus name is from the Ancient Greek terms karpos, "fruit", and dakno, "to bite".

1/ Scarlet finch (Mỏ to lưng đỏ, Carpodacus sipahi) 
formerly placed in the monotypic genus Haematospiza.
The species name sipahi comes from the Hindustani word sipahi for a soldier or the Anglicised form sepoy, for the red uniform worn by those in the employment of the East India Company.

2/ Common rosefinch (Sẻ hồng mura, Carpodacus erythrinus) or scarlet rosefinch
The specific erythrinus is from Latin erythros, "red".

The Oriental grosbeaks (Eophona) are a genus of finches containing two species in the family Fringillidae.
The name Eophona is derived from the classical Greek words eos meaning "dawn" and phone meaning "shout" or "cry".

1/ Yellow-billed grosbeak, or black-tailed hawfinch (Mỏ to đầu đen, Eophona migratoria)

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