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 genus Ixodia is a small genus of songbirds in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae.

1/ Spectacled bulbul, also known as the lesser brown bulbul (Bông lau nâu nhỏ, Ixodia erythropthalmos)

The family name Pycnonotidae is from Greek: puknos "thick" or "compact" and -nōtos "-backed".
Ixodia: From Greek, ixodes, sticky, like bird-lime.

Pycnonotus is a genus of frugivorous passerine birds in the bulbul family Pycnonotidae.
Pycnonotus, Pycnonotidae: from Greek puknos "thick" or "compact" and -nōtos "-backed" (noton: back).

1/ Red-vented bulbul (Pycnonotus cafer, Bông lau đít đỏ)
2/ Stripe-throated Bubul, or streak-throated bulbul (Bông lau họng vạch, Pycnonotus finlaysoni)
3/ Yellow-vented bulbul, or eastern yellow-vented bulbul (Bông lau mày trắng, Pycnonotus goiavier)
4/ Brown-breasted bulbul, also Anderson's Bulbul (Bông lau ngực nâu, Pycnonotus xanthorrhous) 
5/ Sooty-headed bulbul (Bông lau tai trắng, Pycnonotus aurigaster) 
6/ Irrawaddy or Streak-eared Bulbul, or Blanford's Olive Bubul (Bông lau tai vằn, Pycnonotus blanfordi)
7/ Light-vented bulbul, also called the Chinese bulbul (Bông lau Trung Quốc, Pycnonotus sinensis)
8/ Flavescent bulbul (Bông lau vàng, Pycnonotus flavescens) 
9/ Red-whiskered bulbul, or crested bulbul (Chào mào, Pycnonotus jocosus)

The bulbuls are members of a family, Pycnonotidae, of medium-sized passerine songbirds, which also includes greenbuls, brownbuls, leafloves, and bristlebills.

The family name is from Greek: puknos "thick" or "compact" and -nōtos "-backed".

Pachycephala is a genus of birds native to Oceania and Southeast Asia. They are commonly known as typical whistlers. Older guidebooks may refer to them as thickheads.

1/ Mangrove Whistler (Bách thanh lưng lâu, Pachycephala grisola also Pachycephala cinerea)

Alternate names for the mangrove whistler include the grey thickhead and white-bellied whistler.

The Pachycephalidae are a family of bird species that includes the whistlers, shrikethrushes, and three of the pitohuis, and is part of the ancient Australo-Papuan radiation of songbirds. 

Lanius, the typical shrikes, are a genus of passerine birds in the shrike family Laniidae. The majority of the family's species are placed in this genus.

Laniidae, Lanius: derived from the Latin word for "butcher".

1/ Long-tailed shrike or rufous-backed shrike (Bách thanh đuôi dài, Lanius schach)
2/ Bull-headed shrike (Bách thanh đầu hung, Lanius bucephalus)
3/  Brown shrike (Bách thanh nâu or Bách thanh mày trắng, Lanius cristatus)
4/ Burmese shrike (Bách thanh nhỏ, Lanius collurioides)
5/ tiger shrike or thick-billed shrike (Bách thanh vằn, Lanius tigrinus)

6/ Grey-backed shrike (Bách thanh lưng xám, Lanius tephronotus)

Shrikes are passerine birds of the family Laniidae. The family is composed of 34 species in two genera.

The family name, and that of the largest genus, Lanius, is derived from the Latin word for "butcher", and some shrikes are also known as butcherbirds because of the habit, particularly of males, of impaling prey onto plant spines within their territories. 

The bushtits or long-tailed tits are small passerine birds from the family Aegithalidae, containing 13 species in three genera, all but one of which (Psaltriparus) are found in Eurasia. 

Aegithalidae: the Ancient Greek word aigithalos for a tit.

1/     Black-throated bushtit (Bạc má đuôi dài, Agegithalos concinnus)

The sultan tit (Melanochlora sultanea) is an Asian forest bird with a yellow crest, dark bill, black upperparts plumage and yellow underparts. It is the only member of the monotypic genus Melanochlora, which is fairly distinct from the Parus tits with the nearest relative being the monotypic Sylviparus.

Paradiae is from Parus Latin for tit.
Melanochlora / melanochloros Greek melas black;
khloros; green, yellow.

1/ Sultan Tit (Melanochlora sultanea, Chim mào vàng) 

The yellow-browed tit (Sylviparus modestus) is a species of bird in the family Paridae, in the monotypic genus Sylviparus.

1/ Yellow-browed Tit (Bạc má rừng or bạc má mày vàng, Sylviparus modestus)

Parus is a genus of Old World birds in the tit family, formerly a large genus containing most of the 50 odd species in the family Paridae. In 2013, the genus was split into different genera based on detailed molecular phylogenetic analysis.

parus or paru: tit or chickadee.

1/ Great Tit (Bạc má lớn, Parus major)
2/ Green-backed tit (Bạc má lưng xanh, Parus monticolus)

The tits, chickadees, and titmice (titmouses) constitute the Paridae, a large family of small passerine birds which are found mostly in the Northern Hemisphere and Africa. Species found in North America are referred to as chickadees; species found elsewhere in the world are called tits.

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