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.

Ferruginous flycatcher 
(Muscicapa ferruginea, Đớp ruồi đuôi hung)

The ferruginous flycatcher (Muscicapa ferruginea) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae.

The bird is native to the eastern Himalayas, the Purvanchal Range and central/southern China; winters to Hainan and Southeast Asia.


The word Muscicapa comes from the Latin musca, a fly and capere, to catch.
ferruginea Latin ferrugineus rusty-coloured, ferruginous (ferrugo, ferruginis iron rust).

Brown-breasted flycatcher or Layard's flycatcher 
(Muscicapa muttui, Đớp ruồi ngực nâu)

The brown-breasted flycatcher or Layard's flycatcher (Muscicapa muttui) is a small passerine bird in the flycatcher family Muscicapidae.
The species breeds in north eastern India, central and Southern China and northern Burma and Thailand, and migrates to southern India and Sri Lanka.

The word Muscicapa comes from the Latin musca, a fly and capere, to catch.

Brown-streaked flycatcher (Muscicapa williamsoni)

The brown-streaked flycatcher (Muscicapa williamsoni) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. 
The bird is found in southern Myanmar, southern Thailand, northern peninsular Malaysia, and northeast Borneo.


The word Muscicapa comes from the Latin musca, a fly and capere, to catch.

Asian brown flycatcher 
(Muscicapa dauurica, Đớp ruồi nâu)

The Asian brown flycatcher (Muscicapa dauurica) is a small passerine bird in the flycatcher family Muscicapidae. 
The specific dauurica refers to Dauria, an area of south-eastern Siberia named after a local nomadic tribe.
This is an insectivorous species which breeds in Japan, eastern Siberia and the Himalayas. The bird is migratory and winters in tropical southern Asia from southern India and Sri Lanka east to Indonesia.

Traits:
- Partial white-eyeringed;


The word Muscicapa comes from the Latin musca, a fly and capere, to catch.
daurica, dauricus, dauurica, dauuricae, dauuricus Dauria, south-eastern Siberia (after the Dauuri or Dag( uuri, a nomadic Mongolian tribe that inhabited the area).

Dark-sided flycatcher 
(Muscicapa sibirica, Đớp ruồi Sibêri)
also Siberian flycatcher or sooty flycatcher

The dark-sided flycatcher (Muscicapa sibirica) is a small passerine bird belonging to the genus Muscicapa in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.
The bird's wintering range includes north-east India, Bangladesh, southern China, Taiwan and South-east Asia as far as Sumatra, Java, Borneo and the Philippines (Palawan and Culion).

Traits:
- Partial white-eyeringed;

The word Muscicapa comes from the Latin musca, a fly and capere, to catch.

Irena is the single genus in the family Irenidae, or  fairy-bluebirds, small passerine bird species found in forests and plantations in tropical southern Asia and the Philippines.

Irena, Irenidae: A modern Greek spelling of the girls' name Irene, meaning 'peace'. The name is originally spelt Eirene or Eirini in Greek. In Ancient Greek Mythology, Eirene is the Greek goddess of peace.

1/ Asian fairy-bluebird (Chim lam, Irena puella)
"puella" is a Latin noun that primarily means "girl" in English.

The leafbirds (Chloropseidae) are a family of small passerine bird species found in the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. 
All species of the family are placed in the genus Chloropsis. 
In Greek mythology, the name Chloris (/ˈklɔːrɪs/; Greek Χλωρίς Chlōrís, from χλωρός chlōrós, meaning "greenish-yellow", "pale green", "pale", "pallid", or "fresh").
From ὄψ (óps, “eye”) +‎ -σῐς (-sis).
ópsis view sight

The family Irenidae, or  fairy-bluebirds, are small passerine bird species found in forests and plantations in tropical southern Asia and the Philippines.
The family has a single genus Irena and is related to the ioras and leafbirds.

Irenidae: A modern Greek spelling of the girls' name Irene, meaning 'peace'. The name is originally spelt Eirene or Eirini in Greek. In Ancient Greek Mythology, Eirene is the Greek goddess of peace.

Locustellidae is a newly recognized family of small insectivorous songbirds ("warblers"), formerly placed in the Old World warbler "wastebin" family. It contains the grass warblers, grassbirds, and the Bradypterus "bush warblers".

Arundinax is a warbler bird genus in the family Acrocephalidae.
The genus Arundinax is from Latin arundo, arundinis meaning "reed" and Ancient Greek anax which means "master". 

1/ Thick-billed Warbler (Chích mỏ rộng, Arundinax aedon)
The specific aedon is from Ancient Greek aedon and means nightingale. 
In Greek mythology, Aëdon was changed into a nightingale after killing her own son while attempting to murder one of the sons of her sister Niobe.

Thick-billed Warbler 
(Chích mỏ rộng, Arundinax aedon), Thick-billed Warbler

The thick-billed warbler (Arundinax aedon) breeds in the temperate east Palearctic, from south Siberia to west Mongolia. 
The bird is migratory, wintering in tropical South Asia and South-east Asia.

The genus Arundinax is from Latin arundo, arundinis meaning "reed", and Ancient Greek anax which means "master". 
The specific aedon is from Ancient Greek aedon and means nightingale. 
In Greek mythology, Aëdon was changed into a nightingale after killing her own son while attempting to murder one of the sons of her sister Niobe.

The Acrocephalidae (the reed warblers, marsh- and tree-warblers, or acrocephalid warblers) are a family of oscine passerine birds, in the superfamily Sylvioidea.

The family is from the name of the genus Acrocephalus from Ancient Greek akros, "highest", and kephale, "head". 
It is possible that the Naumanns thought akros meant "sharp-pointed".
bistrigiceps: Latin bi- double; striga furrow; -ceps -capped (caput head).

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