Birds of Vietnam, Bird Species in 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.
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Leiothrichidae
- Genus: Pterorhinus
Rufous-vented laughingthrush
(Pterorhinus gularis)
The rufous-vented laughingthrush (Pterorhinus gularis) is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae.
The bird is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam.
Pterorhinus is a genus of passerine birds in the laughingthrush family Leiothrichidae.
The name of the genus combines the Ancient Greek pteron meaning "feather" with rhinos meaning "nostrils".
Earlier the species of this genus were placed in the genus Garrulax.
Latin gula throat; gularis: -throated;
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Leiothrichidae
- Genus: Pterorhinus
Greater necklaced laughingthrush
(Pterorhinus pectoralis)
formerly placed in the genus Garrulax.
The greater necklaced laughingthrush (Pterorhinus pectoralis) is a species of passerine bird in the family Leiothrichidae.
The bird is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand and Vietnam.
Leiothrix Leiothrichidae Ancient Greek leios meaning "smooth" and thrix meaning "hair".
The name of the genus combines the Ancient Greek pteron meaning "feather" with rhinos meaning "nostrils".
pectoralis Latin pectoralis of the breast, or pectoral (from Latin pectus breast).
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Leiothrichidae
- Genus: Pterorhinus
Black-throated laughingthrush
(Khướu bạc má, Pterorhinus chinensis)
earlier placed in the genus Garrulax.
The black-throated laughingthrush (Pterorhinus chinensis) is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae.
The bird is found in Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Compare:
- Black-throated laughingthrush (Khướu bạc má, Pterorhinus chinensis): black hair stretches along the throat to the breast.
- White-Cheeked Laughingthrush (Khướu đầu xám, Pterorhinus vassali): Black hair does not stretch into the breast.
Leiothrix Leiothrichidae Ancient Greek leios meaning "smooth" and thrix meaning "hair".
The name of the genus Pterorhinus combines the Ancient Greek pteron meaning "feather" with rhinos meaning "nostrils".
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Leiothrichidae
- Genus: Garrulax
Black-Hooded Laughingthrush
(Khướu đầu đen, Garrulax milleti)
Leiothrix Leiothrichidae Ancient Greek leios meaning "smooth" and thrix meaning "hair".
Garrulax comes from Latin garrire "to chatter".
The black-hooded laughingthrush is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae.
Traits: black bill, head, throat and breast, white behind eyes, white ring between neck and body.
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Leiothrichidae
- Genus: Garrulax
Lesser necklaced laughingthrush
(Khướu khoang cổ, Garrulax monileger)
The lesser necklaced laughingthrush (Garrulax monileger) is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae.
The bird is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Leiothrix Leiothrichidae Ancient Greek leios meaning "smooth" and thrix meaning "hair".
Garrulax comes from Latin garrire "to chatter"; Latin garrulus: babbling, chattering; -ax inclining towards.
monileger
monīle (genitive monīlis): necklace, collar.
leger Borrowed from French léger, assumed to be from Latin leviarius, from levis (“light in weight”).
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Leiothrichidae
- Genus: Garrulax
Orange-breasted laughingthrush (Garrulax annamensis)
Khướu ngực hồng
Leiothrix Leiothrichidae Ancient Greek leios meaning "smooth" and thrix meaning "hair".
Garrulax comes from Latin garrire "to chatter".
Orange-breasted laughingthrush is a bird species native to Da Lat Plateau (Di Linh Plateau).
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Leiothrichidae
- Genus: Garrulax
Spot-breasted Laughingthrush
(Garrulax merulinus)
The spot-breasted laughingthrush (Garrulax merulinus) is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae.
The bird is found in Yunnan, Northeast India, Laos, Myanmar, north-west Thailand, and northern Vietnam.
Leiothrix Leiothrichidae Ancient Greek leios meaning "smooth" and thrix meaning "hair".
Garrulax comes from Latin garrire "to chatter"; Latin garrulus: babbling, chattering; -ax inclining towards.
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Leiothrichidae
- Genus: Trochalopteron
Collared laughingthrush
(Khướu đầu đen má xám, Trochalopteron yersini)
Leiothrix Leiothrichidae Ancient Greek leios meaning "smooth" and thrix meaning "hair".
The name Trochalopteron combines the Ancient Greek trokhalos meaning "round" or "bowed" with pteron meaning "wing".
The collared laughingthrush, endemic to Vietnam, is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae.
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Pellorneidae
- Genus: Napothera
Short-tailed scimitar babbler
(Khướu mỏ dài, Napothera danjoui)
Also Indochinese Wren Babbler
The short-tailed scimitar babbler, found in Laos and Vietnam, is a species of bird in the family Pellorneidae or the jungle babblers.
Some consider the Indochinese Wren-Babbler (Rimator danjoui, Jabouilleia danjoui, Napothera danjoui danjoui, Napothera danjoui parvirostris) a subspecies of the Short-Tailed Scimitar Babbler.
Napothera:
Ancient Greek term napos (νάπος), meaning "timbered valley"
Thera borrowed from Latin Thēra, from Ancient Greek Θήρᾱ (Thḗrā): Thira, Santorini (an island in the Cyclades, Greece).
Greek θήρα, ας, ἡ, thēra: hunting, the chase.
Thera Alternative spelling of Thira, Santorini (an island in Greece).
Greek napos ravine, gully; -theras hunter (therao: to hunt).
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Cettiidae
Phyllergates is a genus of tailorbirds of the family Cettiidae in the bird order Passeriformes.
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Cisticolidae
- Genus: Orthotomus
Common (or Long-tailed) Tailorbird
(Chích bông đuôi dài, Orthotomus sutorius)
Cisticolidae, Cisticolas (pronounced sis-TIC-olas): from Ancient Greek kisthos, "rock-rose", and Latin colere, "to dwell".
Orthotomus from the Ancient Greek orthotomeō, meaning 'to cut straight'.
The scientific name sutorius means "cobbler" rather than "tailor".
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Pellorneidae
- Genus: Schoeniparus
Black-crowned fulvetta
(Schoeniparus klossi)
Lách tách gáy đen
Schoeniparus
The black-crowned fulvetta, endemic to Vietnam, is a bird species in the family Pellorneidae of the order Passeriformes.
Schoenus (Latin: schœnus; Greek: σχοίνος, schoinos, lit. "rush rope"; Ancient Egyptian: i͗trw, lit. "river-measure") was an ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman unit of length and area based on the knotted cords first used in Egyptian surveying.
schoeni: plural of schoenus
-parus bearing, equivalent. to par(ere) to bear, bring forth + -us adjective, adjectival suffix; see -ous
parus or paru menas tit or chickadee.bir