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: 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
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Paradoxornithidae
- Genus: Paradoxornis
Black-headed parrotbill
(Paradoxornis margaritae)
Khướu mỏ dẹt đầu đen
The black-headed parrotbill, found in subtropical or tropical moist montane forests in eastern Cambodia and southern Vietnam, belongs to the distinct family Paradoxornithidae.
Margarita, margaritae: In Latin from the Greek word margaritari (μαργαριτάρι), meaning pearl.
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Paradoxornithidae
- Genus: Paradoxornis
Grey-headed parrotbill
(Khướu mỏ dẹt đầu xám, Paradoxornis gularis)
The grey-headed parrotbill (Paradoxornis gularis) is a parrotbill in the family Paradoxornithidae and is found in eastern Asia from the Himalayas to Indochina and Hainan.
Traits:
- Gray-headed, grey-headed;
- Black-throated;
- Yellow-billed, orange-billed;
Paradoxornithidae, Paradoxornis: puzzling, paradox bird; Greek paradoxos extraordinary; ornis bird.
gularis gula (“throat”).
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Paradoxornithidae
- Genus: Paradoxornis
White-breasted parrotbill
(Khướu mỏ dẹt to, Paradoxornis ruficeps)
Formerly considered conspecific with the rufous-headed parrotbill.
The white-breasted parrotbill (Paradoxornis ruficeps) is a bird species placed in the distinct family Paradoxornithidae.
The bird is found in Eastern Himalaya, Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam.
Traits:
- Chestnut-headed, rufous-headed, rufous-hooded, chestnut-hooded;
- White-throated;
Paradoxornithidae, Paradoxornis: puzzling, paradox bird; Greek paradoxos extraordinary; ornis bird.
ruficeps Latin rufus red, ruddy; -ceps -headed.











