Birds of Vietnam, Bird Species in 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. Tragopan is a bird genus in the pheasant family Phasianidae.
Member of the genus are commonly called "horned pheasants" because males have two brightly colored, fleshy horns on their head that can be erected during courtship displays.
1/ Temminck's tragopan (Gà lôi tía, Tragopan temminckii)
- Order: Galliformes
- Family: Phasianidae
The gallopheasants (genus Lophura) are pheasants of the family Phasianidae.
The genus comprises 11 species and several subspecies.
Several species in this genus are known as firebacks, including crestless and crested firebacks, as well as the Siamese fireback.
1/ Siamese fireback (Gà lôi hông tía, Lophura diardi), also known as Diard's fireback
2/ Vietnamese pheasant (Gà lôi lam đuôi trắng, Lophura hatinhensis), or Vietnam fireback,
formerly considered a species of gallopheasant, Lophura hatinhensis, but is now considered a variant of Edward's pheasant.
Endemic to central Vietnam. Its range concentrates around Kẻ Gỗ Nature Reserve in Hà Tĩnh Province.
3/ The imperial pheasant (Gà lôi lam mào đen, Lophura imperialis) is a gallopheasant from Southeast Asia.
it is actually a cross of Edwards's pheasant and the silver pheasant (L. nycthemera subsp. annamensis), a hybrid.
4/ Edwards's pheasant (Gà lôi lam mào trắng, Lophura edwardsi)
endemic to the seasonal tropical forests of central Vietnam.
5/ Silver pheasant (Gà lôi trắng, Lophura nycthemera)
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.
Francolins are birds in the tribe Gallini that traditionally have been placed in the genus Francolinus, but now commonly are divided into multiple genera.
Gallini is a tribe of bird in the subfamily Phasianinae including:
- the bamboo partridges,
- francolins and junglefowl (including the chicken).
1/ The Chinese francolin (Đa đa or Gà gô, Francolinus pintadeanus) or Burmese francolin
- Order: Galliformes
- Family: Phasianidae
Pheasants are birds of several genera within the family Phasianidae in the order Galliformes. Pavo is a genus of two species in the pheasant family.
1/ Green peafowl or Indonesian peafowl (Công, Pavo muticus)
Synoicus is a genus of 4 species of Old World quail.
Two of the four species in the genus were originally classified in Excalfactoria, one was classified in Anurophasis, and one was classified in Coturnix.
1/ King quail (Cay Trung Quốc, Synoicus chinensis), also known as the blue-breasted quail, Asian blue quail, Chinese painted quail, or Chung-Chi
The species has had a complex taxonomic history, being classified into the genus Coturnix, then Synoicus, then Excalfactoria. Phylogenetic evidence supports it belonging in an expanded Synoicus.
Coturnix is a genus of five extant species and five to eight known extinct species of Old World quail.
1/ Rain quail or black-breasted quail ( Cay Ấn Độ or Cút mưa, Coturnix coromandelica)
2/ Japanese quail (Cay Nhật Bản, Coturnix japonica)
- Order: Galliformes
The Phasianidae are a family of heavy, ground-living birds, which includes
1/ pheasants,
2/ partridges,
3/ junglefowl,
4/ chickens,
5/ turkeys,
6/ Old World quail,
7/ and peafowl.
Galliformes is an order of heavy-bodied ground-feeding birds that includes
1/ Grouse and ptarmigans - Family Tetraonidae
2/ Turkeys - Family Meleagrididae
3/ Pheasants, quail, and partridges - Family Phasianidae
4/ Chachalacas - Family Cracidae
galliformes derives from "gallus", Latin for "rooster".
- Order: Coraciiformes
- Family: Meropidae
Nyctyornis is a genus of the bee-eaters, near passerine birds in the family Meropidae. There are just two members of this group, which occur in tropical south and southeastern Asia.
The name comes from the Ancient Greek nukt meaning nocturnal or night and ornis meaning bird.
1/ Blue-bearded bee-eater (Trảu lớn, Nyctyornis athertoni)
- Order: Coraciiformes
- Family: Meropidae
Merops is a large genus of bee-eaters, a group of birds in the family Meropidae, native to Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe.
The genus name is Ancient Greek for "bee-eater".
1/ Asian green bee-eater (Trảu xanh nhỏ, Merops orientalis), also known as little green bee-eater, and green bee-eater
2/ Chestnut-headed bee-eater (Trảu họng vàng, Merops leschenaulti), or bay-headed bee-eater
3/ Blue-throated bee-eater (Trảu họng xanh, Merops viridis)
4/ Olive bee-eater or Madagascar bee-eater (Trảu màu ô liu, Trảu Madagascar, Merops superciliosus)
- Order: Coraciiformes
The bee-eaters are a group of birds in the family Meropidae, containing three genera and thirty species. Most species are found in Africa and Asia, with a few in southern Europe, Australia, and New Guinea.
The family name is from the genus Merop which is Ancient Greek for "bee-eater".
The three genera of the family:
1/ Nyctyornis
2/ Meropogon
3/ Merops
- Order: Coraciiformes
Eurystomus is a genus of roller, one of the two genera in that family of birds. The name means ‘broad mouth’, from the Greek eurus (‘broad, wide’) and stoma ( ‘mouth’).
1/ Oriental dollarbird (Yểng Quạ, Eurystomus orientalis)
Also known as Asian dollarbird, dark roller, dollar roller, dollarbird, eastern broad-billed roller and oriental broad-billed roller.
