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.

Larus is a large genus of gulls with worldwide distribution (by far the greatest species diversity is in the Northern Hemisphere).
The genus name is from Ancient Greek laros or Latin larus, which appears to have referred to a gull or other large seabird.

1/ European herring gull (Mòng bể chân vàng, Larus argentatus)
2/ Common gull or sea mew (Mòng bể đầu trắng, Larus canus)
3/ Black-tailed gull (Mòng bể đuôi đen, Larus crassirostris) 

Chroicocephalus is a genus of medium to relatively small gulls which were included in the genus Larus earlier.
The genus name Chroicocephalus is from Ancient Greek khroizo, "to colour", and kephale, "head".

1/ Black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)
The specific ridibundus is Latin for "abundant".

2/ Brown-headed gull (Mòng bể đầu nâu, Chroicocephalus brunnicephalus)

Laridae is a family of birds that comprises the gulls, terns, noddies, skimmers, and kittiwakes of the order Charadriiformes.

The genus Metopidius contains a single bird species of waders, Metopidius indicus, in the family Jacanidae.
The name Metopidius is from the Ancient Greek word metopidios meaning "on the forehead", referring to the frontal lappet. 
Greek metopon for forehead, brow.

1/ Bronze-winged jacana (Metopidius indicus)
The specific epithet indicus is the Latin word for "Indian".

Hydrophasianus is a genus of birds in the family Jacanidae, in the order Charadriiformes.
Jacana From specific name Parra jacana; Portuguese name Jaçana for the Wattled
Jacana.
The genus Hydrophasianus means "water pheasant".

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

The jacanas (sometimes referred to as Jesus birds or lily trotters) are a group of tropical waders in the family Jacanidae. 

Glareola is a genus of birds in the family Glareolidae. 
The genus name is a diminutive of Latin glarea, "gravel", referring to a typical nesting habitat.

1/ Oriental pratincole (Dô nách nâu, Óc cau, Glareola maldivarum), also known as the grasshopper-bird or swallow-plover
The species name maldivarum refers to the type locality, the ocean near the Maldive Islands.

2/ Small pratincole, little pratincole, or small Indian pratincole (Dô nách xám, Glareola lactea)

Glareolidae is a family of birds in the wader suborder Lari, order Charadriiformes. It contains two distinct groups, the pratincoles and the coursers.

Vanellus is the genus of waders which provisionally contains all lapwings except red-kneed dotterel, Erythrogonys cinctus. The name "vanellus" is Latin for "little fan", vanellus being the diminutive of vannus ("winnowing fan").

1/ River lapwing (Te cựa, Vanellus duvaucelii)

2/ Northern lapwing (Te mào, Vanellus vanellus), also known as the peewit or pewit, tuit or tewit, green plover, or (in Ireland and Great Britain) pyewipe or just lapwing

3/ Grey-headed lapwing (Te vàng, Vanellus cinereus)

4/ Red-wattled lapwing (Te vặt,Vanellus indicus)

Pluvialis is a genus of plovers, a group of wading birds comprising four species that breed in the temperate or Arctic Northern Hemisphere.
The genus name is Latin and means relating to rain, from pluvia, "rain". It was believed the birds flocked when rain was imminent.

1/ Pacific golden plover (Choi choi vàng, Pluvialis fulva)
 The specific epithet is also from Latin and means 'tawny' or 'yellowish-brown'.

2/ grey plover or black-bellied plover (Choi choi xám, Pluvialis squatarola) 
The species name squatarola is a Latinised version of Sgatarola, a Venetian name for some kind of plover.

Charadrius is a genus of plovers, a group of wading birds in the family Charadriidae, in the order Charadriiformes. 
The genus name Charadrius is a Late Latin word for a yellowish bird mentioned in the fourth-century Vulgate. 

1/ Long-billed plover (Choi choi lớn, Charadrius placidus)

2/ Little ringed plover (Choi choi nhỏ, Charadrius dubius) 
The specific dubius is Latin for doubtful, since Sonnerat, writing in 1776, thought this bird might be just a variant of common ringed plover.

Anarhynchus is a genus of plovers formerly placed in the genus Charadrius.  The genus name is from Ancient Greek ana meaning "backward", and rhunkhosmeaning "bill".

1/ Greater sand plover (Choi choi lưng hung, Anarhynchus leschenaultii) 
The specific leschenaultii commemorates the French botanist Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour.

2/ Kentish plover (Choi choi cổ khoang, Anarhynchus alexandrinus) 

3/ Malaysian plover (Choi choi lưng đen, Anarhynchus peronii)

4/ Siberian sand plover (Anarhynchus mongolus) 
The specific mongolus is Latin and refers to Mongolia, which at the time of naming referred to a larger area than the present country.
The species was previously known as  "lesser sand plover".

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