Vietnam Adventure Tours & Travel, Trekking, Cycling, Family Tours

Brachypteryx

  • Brachypteryx

    Brachypteryx is a genus of passerine birds in the family Muscicapidae containing ten species known as shortwings, that occurs in southeast Asia.
    Muscicapa comes from the Latin musca meaning a fly, and capere to catch.
    The genus Brachypteryx from the classical Greek brakhus mean "short" and pterux meaning "wing".

  • Lesser Shortwing

    Lesser Shortwing 
    (Hoét đuôi cụt mày trắng, Brachypteryx leucophris)

    The family name Muscicapidae is from Muscicapa which comes from the Latin musca, a fly and capere, to catch.

    Some consider the Langbiang Lesser Shortwing (Brachypteryx leucophris langbianensis) a subspecies of the Lesser Shortwing.

    The genus Brachypteryx from the classical Greek: brakhus mean "short" and pterux meaning "wing".

    The lesser shortwing, a species of chat, is now classified in the family Muscicapidae.

    leuco- From Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, “white”).

Vietnam Adventure Travel