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.

Purple heron (Diệc lửa, Ardea purpurea) 

The purple heron (Ardea purpurea) is a wide-ranging heron species. 
The bird breeds in Africa, central and southern Europe, and southern and eastern Palearctic.

The genus name comes from the Latin word ardea meaning "heron".
The specific epithet comes from Latin purpureus, "coloured purple".

Great-billed heron (Diệc Sumatra, Ardea sumatrana)

The great-billed heron (Ardea sumatrana) is a wading bird of the heron family, resident from southeast Asia to Papua New Guinea and Australia.

The genus name comes from the Latin word ardea meaning "heron".

The cattle egret (Bubulcus) is a cosmopolitan genus of heron (family Ardeidae) found in the tropics, subtropics, and warm-temperate zones.

The below two species have been moved to the genus Ardea. There is no more bird species in the genus Bubulcus

The genus contains two species: the western cattle egret and the eastern cattle egret. Some authorities regard them as a single species. 

1/ Western cattle egret (Cò ruồi, Bubulcus ibis)

2/ Eastern cattle egret (Cò ruồi, Bubulcus coromandus)

The genus name Bubulcus is Latin for herdsman, referring to this species' association with cattle. 

The name Anastomus is from the Ancient Greek anastomoō meaning "to furnish with a mouth" or "with mouth wide-opened".
The mandibles of these birds do not meet except at the tip, or there is a gap between the arched upper mandible and recurved lower mandible.

1/ Asian openbill or Asian openbill stork (Cò nhạn, Cò ốc, Anastomus oscitans)
The specific epithet oscitans is the Latin word for "yawning".

Ciconiiformes, Ciconiidae: from Latin ciconia for stork.

Storks are large, long-legged, long-necked wading birds with long, stout bills belonging to the family called Ciconiidae, and make up the order Ciconiiformes.

Ciconiidae, Ciconia: the Latin word for "stork".

Ixobrychus is a genus of bitterns, a group of wading bird in the heron family Ardeidae.

Ardeidae, Ardea: the Latin word ardea meaning "heron".
The genus name combines the Ancient Greek ixias, a reed-like plant and brukhomai, to bellow.

A molecular phylogenetic study of the heron family Ardeidae published in 2023 found that Ixobrychus was paraphyletic, Ixobrychus was merged into the genus Botaurus.

1/ Black bittern (Cò hương, Botaurus flavicollis) 
2/ Cinnamon bittern (Cò lửa, Botaurus cinnamomeus) or chestnut bittern
3/ Yellow bittern (Cò lửa lùn, Botaurus sinensis)
4/ Von Schrenck's bittern or Schrenck's bittern (Cò nâu, Botaurus eurhythmus)

Intermediate egret, median egret, smaller egret or medium egret 
(Cò ngàng nhỏ, Ardea intermedia)
Some authorities classify the intermediate egret in its own monotypic genus, Mesophoyx, while others place it with the smaller egrets in Egretta.

Great egret 
(Cò ngàng lớn, Ardea alba), also known as the common egret, large egret, or (in the Old World) great white egret or great white heron

The great egret (Ardea alba) is a bird species of the heron family Ardeidae.
This bird species is distributed across most of the tropical and warmer temperate regions of the world

Grey heron (Diệc xám, Ardea cinerea)

The grey heron (Ardea cinerea) is a long-legged wading bird of the heron family, Ardeidae, native throughout temperate Europe and Asia, and also parts of Africa.

Ardea is a genus of herons. 

1/ Great egret (Cò ngàng lớn, Ardea alba), also known as the common egret, large egret, or (in the Old World) great white egret or great white heron
The scientific name comes from Latin ardea for "heron", and alba for "white".
formerly placed in Egretta genus.

2/ Intermediate egret, median egret, smaller egret or medium egret (Cò ngàng nhỏ, Ardea intermedia)
Some authorities classify the intermediate egret in its own monotypic genus, Mesophoyx, while others place it with the smaller egrets in Egretta.

3/ Purple heron (Diệc lửa, Ardea purpurea) 
4/ Great-billed heron (Diệc Sumatra, Ardea sumatrana)
5/ Grey heron (Diệc xám, Ardea cinerea)

The below two species used to belong to the genus Bubulcus
6/ Eastern cattle egret (Ardea coromanda)

7/ Western cattle egret (Ardea ibis)

The genus name comes from the Latin word ardea meaning "heron".

Egretta is a genus of medium-sized herons, mostly breeding in warmer climates.
The genus name comes from the Provençal French for the little egret, aigrette, a diminutive of aigron, "heron".

1/ Pacific reef heron (Cò đen, Egretta sacra), also known as the eastern reef heron or eastern reef egret
2/ Little egret (Cò trắng, Egretta garzetta) 
The species epithet garzetta is from the Italian name for this bird, garzetta or sgarzetta.
3/ Chinese egret or Swinhoe's egret (Cò trắng Trung Quốc, Egretta eulophotes)

Pond herons (Ardeola) are herons. The scientific name comes from Latin ardeola, a small heron (ardea).

1/ Chinese pond heron (Cò bợ, Ardeola bacchus) 
2/ Javan pond heron (Cò bợ Java, Ardeola speciosa) 

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