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.

Orange minivet 
(Phường chèo đỏ lớn, Pericrocotus flammeus)

The orange minivet (Pericrocotus flammeus) is a brightly colored bird in the cuckooshrike family, Campephagidae.
This bird species is similar to and used to be considered a subspecies of the scarlet minivet (Pericrocotus speciosus),
more work is to be done related to the split of these two species though.

Traits:
- Male: fiery orange color underpart or underside, black mantle and black hood;
- Female: saffron yellow underpart, ashy nape and mantle; 

Campephagidae: New Latin, from Campephaga, type genus (from Greek kampē caterpillar + New Latin -phaga) + -idae; 'Phago' is a term used as a prefix in Latin meaning 'Eating' or 'swallowing'. Phago ultimately comes from the Greek phageîn, which means “to eat, devour.”
The genus name comes from Ancient Greek peri - 'very', and krokotus 'saffron-coloured'.
The species name flammeus has its roots in Latin, meaning 'fiery' or 'flame-coloured' (flamma - 'flame').

Short-billed minivet 
(Phường chèo đỏ mỏ ngắn, Pericrocotus brevirostris)

Traits:
Male: Black and orange-red or red upperpart, orange-red or red underpart, black hood and mantle;
Female: gray and yellow upperpart, yellow underpart, ashy nape and mantle;

The short-billed minivet (Pericrocotus brevirostris) is a species of bird in the family Campephagidae. 
The bird is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Campephagidae: New Latin, from Campephaga, type genus (from Greek kampē caterpillar + New Latin -phaga) + -idae; 'Phago' is a term used as a prefix in Latin meaning 'Eating' or 'swallowing'. Phago ultimately comes from the Greek phageîn, which means “to eat, devour.”
The genus name comes from Ancient Greek peri - 'very', and krokotus 'saffron-coloured'.

Rosy minivet (Phường chèo hồng, Pericrocotus roseus)

The rosy minivet (Pericrocotus roseus) is a species of bird in the family Campephagidae.
The bird is found in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Traits:
- Black-lored;
- Ashy-naped;

Campephagidae: New Latin, from Campephaga, type genus (from Greek kampē caterpillar + New Latin -phaga) + -idae; 'Phago' is a term used as a prefix in Latin meaning 'Eating' or 'swallowing'. Phago ultimately comes from the Greek phageîn, which means “to eat, devour.”
The genus name comes from Ancient Greek peri - 'very', and krokotus 'saffron-coloured'.

Small minivet 
(Phường chèo nhỏ, Pericrocotus cinnamomeus)

The small minivet (Pericrocotus cinnamomeus) is a small passerine bird. 
The bird is found in tropical southern Asia from the Indian subcontinent east to Indonesia.

Campephagidae: New Latin, from Campephaga, type genus (from Greek kampē caterpillar + New Latin -phaga) + -idae; 'Phago' is a term used as a prefix in Latin meaning 'Eating' or 'swallowing'. Phago ultimately comes from the Greek phageîn, which means “to eat, devour.”
The genus name comes from Ancient Greek peri - 'very', and krokotus 'saffron-coloured'.
cinnamomeus Latin for cinnamon-coloured.

Ashy minivet 
(Phường chèo trắng lớn, Pericrocotus divaricatus)

The ashy minivet (Pericrocotus divaricatus) is a passerine bird of eastern Asia belonging to the minivet genus Pericrocotus in the cuckooshrike family Campephagidae.

The bird breeds in south-east Siberia, north-east China, Korea and Japan, and winters in South and South-east Asia as far south as Sumatra, Borneo and the Philippines.

Traits:
- Black-lored;
- White-throated;
- White-underpart;

- Male: Black-naped, white-fronted;
- Female: ashy head, ashy nape and ashy mantle.

Campephagidae: New Latin, from Campephaga, type genus (from Greek kampē caterpillar + New Latin -phaga) + -idae; 'Phago' is a term used as a prefix in Latin meaning 'Eating' or 'swallowing'. Phago ultimately comes from the Greek phageîn, which means “to eat, devour.”
The genus name comes from Ancient Greek peri - 'very', and krokotus 'saffron-coloured'.
divaricatus Latin divaricatus spread out.

The minivets are passerine birds belonging to the genus Pericrocotus in the cuckooshrike family Campephagidae.

Campephagidae: New Latin, from Campephaga, type genus (from Greek kampē caterpillar + New Latin -phaga) + -idae; 'Phago' is a term used as a prefix in Latin meaning 'Eating' or 'swallowing'. Phago ultimately comes from the Greek phageîn, which means “to eat, devour.”

The genus name comes from Ancient Greek peri - 'very', and krokotus 'saffron-coloured'.

1/ Swinhoe's minivet or the brown-rumped minivet (Phường chèo cánh trắng, Pericrocotus cantonensis)

2/ Long-tailed minivet (Phường chèo đỏ đuôi dài, Pericrocotus ethologus) 

3/ Orange minivet (Phường chèo đỏ lớn, Pericrocotus flammeus)
The species name flammeus has its roots in Latin, meaning 'fiery' or 'flame-coloured' (flamma - 'flame').

4/ Short-billed minivet (Phường chèo đỏ mỏ ngắn, Pericrocotus brevirostris)

5/ Rosy minivet (Phường chèo hồng, Pericrocotus roseus)

6/ Grey-chinned minivet (Phường chèo má xám, Pericrocotus solaris)

7/ Small minivet (Phường chèo nhỏ, Pericrocotus cinnamomeus)

8/ Ashy minivet (Phường chèo trắng lớn, Pericrocotus divaricatus)

9/ Scarlet minivet (Phường chèo đỏ, Pericrocotus speciosus) 
From speciēs (“appearance”) +‎ -osus (“-ose, -ous, forming adjectives”).
speciōsus good-looking, handsome, beautiful

Campephagidae containing the cuckooshrikes and allies is a family of passerine birds found in the subtropical and tropical Africa, Asia and Australasia.
Cuckooshrikes are not closely related to either the cuckoos or to the shrikes.

Campephagidae: New Latin, from Campephaga, type genus (from Greek kampē caterpillar + New Latin -phaga) + -idae; 'Phago' is a term used as a prefix in Latin meaning 'Eating' or 'swallowing'. Phago ultimately comes from the Greek phageîn, which means “to eat, devour.”

Woodswallows are soft-plumaged, somber-coloured passerine birds in the genus Artamus of the family Artamidae.
The generic name Artamus is derived from the Ancient Greek artamos, meaning butcher or murder.

1/ Ashy woodswallow (Nhạn rừng, Artamus fuscus), sometimes also called the ashy swallow-shrike

Artamidae is a family of passerine birds found in Australia, the Indo-Pacific region, and Southern Asia.

The crag martins are four species of small passerine birds in the genus Ptyonoprogne of the swallow family.
The genus name is derived from the Greek ptuon meaning "a fan", referring to the shape of the opened tail.

1/ Dusky crag martin (Nhạn nâu hung, Ptyonoprogne concolor)
Procne is the name of a mythological girl who was turned into a swallow.

Riparia is a genus of passerine birds in the swallow family Hirundinidae.
The genus name is from the Latin riparius which means "of the riverbank"; it is derived from the Latin ripa "riverbank".

1/ Brown-throated martin or brown-throated sand martin (Riparia paludicola)
The specific epithet paludicola is Latin meaning "marsh-dweller" (from palus, paludis meaning "swamp" and -cola meaning "dweller".

2/ Sand martin (Nhạn nâu xám, Riparia riparia), also known as the bank swallow (in the Americas), collared sand martin, or common sand martin

Delichon is a small genus of passerine birds that belongs to the swallow family and contains four species called house martins.
The name of the genus, "Delichon", is an anagram of the Ancient Greek term chelidon meaning swallow.

1/  Asian house martin (Nhạn hông trắng Á châu, Delichon dasypus)
dasypus is from Greek meaning "rough-legged".

2/ Nepal house martin (Nhạn hông trắng Nêpan, Delichon nipalense)
nipalense refers to Nepal, where the type specimen was obtained.

3/ Western house martin (Nhạn hông trắng Xibêri, Delichon urbicum), sometimes called the common house martin, northern house martin or, particularly in Europe, just house martin
The species name urbicum (urbica until 2004, due to a misunderstanding of Latin grammar) means "of the town" in Latin.

Page 51 of 97

Golden rice terraces at Mu Cang Chai, Yen Bai

Vietnam Adventure Travel