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.

Tiger shrike 
or thick-billed shrike 
( Bách thanh vằn, Lanius tigrinus)

The tiger shrike or thick-billed shrike (Lanius tigrinus) is a small passerine bird which belongs to the genus Lanius in the shrike family, Laniidae. 
The bird's range extends from south-east China south through eastern Burma, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam to Malaysia and Indonesia.

Traits:
- Tiger-like patterns on the back and lower sides;
- Black-eyelined;
- Gray head and nape;

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

Bull-headed shrike 
(Bách thanh đầu hung, Lanius bucephalus)

 


The bull-headed shrike (Lanius bucephalus) is a passerine bird of eastern Asia belonging to the shrike family Laniidae.
The bird breeds in north-east China, Korea, Japan and far-eastern Russia. 
Northern birds migrate south for the winter with a few reaching southern China, sighted in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Vietnam. 


Traits:
- Black-eyelined;
- Brown-headed and brown-naped;
- White-throated;


Laniidae, Lanius: derived from the Latin word for "butcher".
bucephalus:
 Cephalus: Ancient Greek: Κέφαλος Kephalos means "head".
 bous bull, ox; kephale head

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)
3/ Cinereous tit (Parus cinereus)

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.

Estrildidae, or estrildid finches, is a family of small seed-eating passerine birds of the Old World tropics and Australasia. 
They comprise species commonly known as munias, mannikins, firefinches, parrotfinches and waxbills. 

The word Estrildidae is derived from the Greek word "estrildis," meaning "sparrow-like," and the Latin suffix "-idae," denoting a family of animals.

Amandava is a genus of the estrildid finches. These birds are found in dense grass or scrub in Africa and South Asia.
 
1/ Red avadavat, red munia or strawberry finch (Chim mai hoa, Amandava amandava)

Parrotfinches are small, colourful passerine birds belonging to the genus Erythrura in the family Estrildidae, the estrildid finches.
 
1/ Pin-tailed parrotfinch (Di xanh, Erythrura prasina)

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