Birds of Vietnam, Bird Species in Vietnam
- Order: Galliformes
- Family: Phasianidae
Arborophila is a bird genus in the family Phasianidae.
The genus has the second most members within the Galliformes after Pternistis, although Arborophila species vary very little in bodily proportions with different species varying only in colouration/patterning and overall size.
Phasianidae from Phasianus: Latin for "pheasant", derived from the Ancient Greek φἀσιἀνος, phāsiānos, meaning "(bird) of the Phasis", the River Phasis (now the Rioni) in Colchis on the east coast of the Black Sea (now western Georgia).
Arborophila: the Latin arbor, arboris meaning "tree" with the Ancient Greek philos meaning "-loving".
1/ Orange-necked partridge (Gà so cổ hung/cam, Arborophila davidi)
2/ Common hill partridge, necklaced hill partridge, or simply hill partridge (Gà so họng đen, Arborophila torqueola)
3/ Rufous-throated partridge (Gà so họng hung, Arborophila rufogularis)
4/ Bar-backed partridge (Gà so họng trắng, Arborophila brunneopectus), also known as the brown-breasted hill-partridge
The genus Bambusicola in the family Phasianidae includes bamboo partridges, sometimes called ridge partridges which are medium-sized non-migratory birds.
1/ Mountain bamboo partridge (Gà so, Bambusicola fytchii)
Gallus is a bird genus in the family Phasianidae, the type species is the red junglefowl.
The red junglefowl and common pheasant are now known to have diverged about 18–23 million years ago, and belong to different subfamilies.
1/ Red junglefowl (Gà rừng lông đỏ, Gallus gallus)
Tragopan is a bird genus in the pheasant family Phasianidae.
Member of the genus are commonly called "horned pheasants" because males have two brightly colored, fleshy horns on their head that can be erected during courtship displays.
1/ Temminck's tragopan (Gà lôi tía, Tragopan temminckii)
- Order: Galliformes
- Family: Phasianidae
The gallopheasants (genus Lophura) are pheasants of the family Phasianidae.
The genus comprises 11 species and several subspecies.
Several species in this genus are known as firebacks, including crestless and crested firebacks, as well as the Siamese fireback.
1/ Siamese fireback (Gà lôi hông tía, Lophura diardi), also known as Diard's fireback
2/ Vietnamese pheasant (Gà lôi lam đuôi trắng, Lophura hatinhensis), or Vietnam fireback,
formerly considered a species of gallopheasant, Lophura hatinhensis, but is now considered a variant of Edward's pheasant.
Endemic to central Vietnam. Its range concentrates around Kẻ Gỗ Nature Reserve in Hà Tĩnh Province.
3/ The imperial pheasant (Gà lôi lam mào đen, Lophura imperialis) is a gallopheasant from Southeast Asia.
it is actually a cross of Edwards's pheasant and the silver pheasant (L. nycthemera subsp. annamensis), a hybrid.
4/ Edwards's pheasant (Gà lôi lam mào trắng, Lophura edwardsi)
endemic to the seasonal tropical forests of central Vietnam.
5/ Silver pheasant (Gà lôi trắng, Lophura nycthemera)
was placed in the genus Phasianus.
For some time it was placed either in Euplocamus or Gennceus.
Today all major authorities place the silver pheasant in Lophura.
Francolins are birds in the tribe Gallini that traditionally have been placed in the genus Francolinus, but now commonly are divided into multiple genera.
Gallini is a tribe of bird in the subfamily Phasianinae including:
- the bamboo partridges,
- francolins and junglefowl (including the chicken).
1/ The Chinese francolin (Đa đa or Gà gô, Francolinus pintadeanus) or Burmese francolin
- Order: Galliformes
- Family: Phasianidae
Pheasants are birds of several genera within the family Phasianidae in the order Galliformes. Pavo is a genus of two species in the pheasant family.
1/ Green peafowl or Indonesian peafowl (Công, Pavo muticus)
Synoicus is a genus of 4 species of Old World quail.
Two of the four species in the genus were originally classified in Excalfactoria, one was classified in Anurophasis, and one was classified in Coturnix.
1/ King quail (Cay Trung Quốc, Synoicus chinensis), also known as the blue-breasted quail, Asian blue quail, Chinese painted quail, or Chung-Chi
The species has had a complex taxonomic history, being classified into the genus Coturnix, then Synoicus, then Excalfactoria. Phylogenetic evidence supports it belonging in an expanded Synoicus.
Coturnix is a genus of five extant species and five to eight known extinct species of Old World quail.
1/ Rain quail or black-breasted quail ( Cay Ấn Độ or Cút mưa, Coturnix coromandelica)
2/ Japanese quail (Cay Nhật Bản, Coturnix japonica)
- Order: Galliformes
The Phasianidae are a family of heavy, ground-living birds, which includes
1/ pheasants,
2/ partridges,
3/ junglefowl,
4/ chickens,
5/ turkeys,
6/ Old World quail,
7/ and peafowl.
Galliformes is an order of heavy-bodied ground-feeding birds that includes
1/ Grouse and ptarmigans - Family Tetraonidae
2/ Turkeys - Family Meleagrididae
3/ Pheasants, quail, and partridges - Family Phasianidae
4/ Chachalacas - Family Cracidae
- Order: Coraciiformes
- Family: Meropidae
Nyctyornis is a genus of the bee-eaters, near passerine birds in the family Meropidae. There are just two members of this group, which occur in tropical south and southeastern Asia.
The name comes from the Ancient Greek nukt meaning nocturnal or night and ornis meaning bird.
1/ Blue-bearded bee-eater (Trảu lớn, Nyctyornis athertoni)