Birds of Vietnam, Bird Species in Vietnam
- 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.
- 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: 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)
The short-tailed scimitar babbler, found in Laos and Vietnam, is a species of bird in the family Pellorneidae or the jungle babblers.
- 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".
The common tailorbird is a songbird found across tropical Asia: upright tail, greenish upper body plumage and rust coloured forehead and crown.
- 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: Cisticolidae
- Genus: Prinia
Yellow-bellied prinia
(Chiền chiện bụng vàng, Prinia flaviventris)
The yellow-bellied prinia is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae.
Cisticoladae from Cisticola, which is from Ancient Greek kisthos, "rock-rose", and Latin colere, "to dwell". ... cisticola)
flaviventris: New Latin; from flāvus (“yellow”) + venter (“belly”)
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Pycnonotidae
- Genus: Hemixos
Ashy bulbul
(Cành cạch xám, Hemixos flavala)
The ashy bulbul (Hemixos flavala) is a species in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae.
Pycnonotidae
pycno-
Pycnonotus
puknos "thick" or "compact" and
-nōtos "-backed".
- Order: Bucerotiformes
- Family: Bucerotidae
- Genus: Anthracoceros
Oriental pied hornbill, or Sunda pied hornbill (convexus), or Malaysian pied hornbill.
(Cao cát phương đông, Anthracoceros albirostris)
albirostris
The name is a combination of the Ancient Greek words:
- ανθραξ anthrax, ανθρακος anthrakos meaning "coal black" ,
- and κερας keras, κερως kerōs meaning "horn".
albirostris: From albus (“white”) + rōstrum (“beak”)
The oriental pied hornbill an Indo-Malayan pied hornbill of the family Bucerotidae.
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Corvidae
- Genus: Cissa
Indochinese green magpie, also known as the yellow-breasted magpie
(Gẻ cùi bụng vàng, Cissa hypoleuca)
The Indochinese green magpie is a small colorful bird native to the forests of China and Vietnam.
While most Cissa species have the lower body green, those in Vietnam and in southern Southeast Asia have the lower body yellow.
The name Cissa is from the Ancient Greek kissa meaning a "jay" or "magpie".
hypoleuca: from two Greek roots: hupo, "below", and leukos, "white".