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.

Aberrant Bush-Warbler 
(Chích mày vàng, Horornis flavolivaceus)

The aberrant bush warbler (Horornis flavolivaceus) is a species in the bush warbler family, Cettiidae.
The bird is found in Bhutan, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Thailand, Timor-Leste and Vietnam, and also in northeastern and southeastern Bangladesh.


Horornis: Greek oros mountain; ornis bird.
The specific epithet flavolivaceus combines the Latin flavus meaning "yellow" with the Modern Latin olivaceus meaning "olive-green".

Manchurian bush warbler 
(Horornis canturians), also known as Korean bush warbler

The Manchurian bush warbler (Horornis canturians), also known as Korean bush warbler, is a bird in the family Cettiidae.

Traits:
- Dark-eyelined, blackish-eyelined;
- Whitish-browed;


Horornis: Greek oros mountain; ornis bird.
canturians: Latin canturians chirping (cantus singing, cantare to sing).

Cettia is a genus of small insectivorous songbirds which make up the core of the family Cettiidae.

Chestnut-headed tesia 
(Chích đuôi cụt bụng vàng, Cettia castaneocoronata)

The chestnut-headed tesia (Cettia castaneocoronata) is a small insectivorous songbird formerly of the "Old World warbler" family but nowadays placed in the bush warbler family (Cettiidae).
The bird is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam.

The chestnut-headed tesia was formerly included in the genus Tesia. 
A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2011 found that the chestnut-headed tesia (Chích đuôi cụt bụng vàng) belongs to the genus Cettia, bush warbler. 
The species was moved but retained the same common name or sometimes referred to as Cettia castaneocoronata abadiei

Traits:
- Chestnut-headed;
- Yellow-throated;
- White-eyering: There is an arc of white-eyering adjacent to the ear.

Cettiidae: Cettia from Francesco Cetti.
The specific epithet castaneocoronata combines the Latin castaneus meaning "chestnut-coloured" and coronatus meaning "crowned".

Chestnut-crowned bush warbler 
(Cettia major)

The chestnut-crowned bush warbler (Cettia major) is a species of warbler found in South Asia.

Traits:
- Chestnut-crowned, chestnut-capped;
- Whitish-browed;

Cettiidae: Cettia from Francesco Cetti.

The Acrocephalus warblers are small, insectivorous passerine birds belonging to the genus Acrocephalus, of the marsh and tree warbler family Acrocephalidae. They are sometimes called marsh warblers or reed warblers.

Flycatcher warblers are small insectivorous passerine birds belonging to the genus Seicercus, family Phylloscopidae (formerly Old World warbler family). 

Leaf warblers are small insectivorous passerine birds belonging to the genus Phylloscopus. Leaf warblers were formerly included in the Old World warbler family but are now considered to belong to the family Phylloscopidae, introduced in 2006.

The mountain tailorbird (Phyllergates cucullatus) is a songbird species formerly placed in the "Old World warbler" assemblage, but is now placed in the genus Phyllergates of the family Cettiidae.

Tailorbirds are small birds, most of which belong to the genus Orthotomus. They were often placed in the Old World warbler family Sylviidae, recent research suggests they more likely belong in the Cisticolidae.

Olive-backed tailorbird 
(Chích bông nâu, Orthotomus sepium)

The olive-backed tailorbird (Orthotomus sepium) is a species of passerine bird formerly placed in the "Old World warbler" assemblage, it but now placed in the family Cisticolidae.

The name Cisticoladae from Cisticola, which is from Ancient Greek kisthos, "rock-rose", and Latin colere, "to dwell". ... cisticola).
Orthotomus: from the Ancient Greek orthotomeō, meaning 'to cut straight'.
sepium Latin sepium of hedges (sepes hedge).

The chats, which are insectivorous, robust ground-feeding and strong migrants, now belong to the Old World flycatcher family (Muscicapidae).


Saxicola in Latin: saxum, rock + incola, dwelling in. 
The stonechats or chats, is a genus of 15 species of small passerine birds restricted to the Old World.


1/ Common Stonechat (Sẻ bụi đầu đen, Saxicola torquatus), also African stonechat 
This species is considered superspecies now:
 African stonechat Saxicola torquatus in the strict sense
 European stonechat Saxicola rubicola
 Siberian stonechat Saxicola maurus
 Madagascar stonechat Saxicola sibilla


Newly added to this superspecies:
 Fuerteventura chat Saxicola dacotiae
 Reunion stonechat Saxicola tectes
 White-tailed stonechat Saxicola leucurus


2/ Pied Bushchat (Sẻ bụi đen, Saxicola caprata)
3/ Jerdon's Bushchat (Sẻ bụi lưng xanh, Saxicola jerdoni)


4/ Grey Bush Chat (Sẻ bụi xám, Saxicola ferreus)

Gray bush chat


5/ Siberian stonechat or Asian stonechat (Saxicola maurus) 
Sẻ bụi đầu đen

6/ Amur stonechat,  or Stejneger's stonechat
Saxicola stejnegeri
The Latin binomial commemorates the Norwegian ornithologist Leonhard Hess Stejneger.

 

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