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.

Brown-rumped Minivet
Swinhoe's minivet or the brown-rumped minivet (Phường chèo cánh trắng, Pericrocotus cantonensis)


Swinhoe's minivet or the brown-rumped minivet (Pericrocotus cantonensis) is a bird in the cuckooshrike family, Campephagidae.
The bird breeds in China and winters in Mainland Southeast Asia.

Traits:
- Black-lored or black-eyelined;
- White-foreheaded;
- White lower body or lower parts;


Campephagidae: New Latin, from Campephaga, type genus (from Greek kampē caterpillar + New Latin -phaga) + -idae; 'Phago' is a term used as a prefix in Latin meaning 'Eating' or 'swallowing'. Phago ultimately comes from the Greek phageîn, which means “to eat, devour.”
The genus name comes from Ancient Greek peri - 'very', and krokotus 'saffron-coloured'.

Orange minivet 
(Phường chèo đỏ lớn, Pericrocotus flammeus)

The orange minivet (Pericrocotus flammeus) is a brightly colored bird in the cuckooshrike family, Campephagidae.
This bird species is similar to and used to be considered a subspecies of the scarlet minivet (Pericrocotus speciosus),
more work is to be done related to the split of these two species though.

Traits:
- Male: fiery orange color underpart or underside, black mantle and black hood;
- Female: saffron yellow underpart, ashy nape and mantle; 

Campephagidae: New Latin, from Campephaga, type genus (from Greek kampē caterpillar + New Latin -phaga) + -idae; 'Phago' is a term used as a prefix in Latin meaning 'Eating' or 'swallowing'. Phago ultimately comes from the Greek phageîn, which means “to eat, devour.”
The genus name comes from Ancient Greek peri - 'very', and krokotus 'saffron-coloured'.
The species name flammeus has its roots in Latin, meaning 'fiery' or 'flame-coloured' (flamma - 'flame').

Short-billed minivet 
(Phường chèo đỏ mỏ ngắn, Pericrocotus brevirostris)

Traits:
Male: Black and orange-red or red upperpart, orange-red or red underpart, black hood and mantle;
Female: gray and yellow upperpart, yellow underpart, ashy nape and mantle;

The short-billed minivet (Pericrocotus brevirostris) is a species of bird in the family Campephagidae. 
The bird is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Campephagidae: New Latin, from Campephaga, type genus (from Greek kampē caterpillar + New Latin -phaga) + -idae; 'Phago' is a term used as a prefix in Latin meaning 'Eating' or 'swallowing'. Phago ultimately comes from the Greek phageîn, which means “to eat, devour.”
The genus name comes from Ancient Greek peri - 'very', and krokotus 'saffron-coloured'.

Rosy minivet (Phường chèo hồng, Pericrocotus roseus)

The rosy minivet (Pericrocotus roseus) is a species of bird in the family Campephagidae.
The bird is found in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Traits:
- Black-lored;
- Ashy-naped;

Campephagidae: New Latin, from Campephaga, type genus (from Greek kampē caterpillar + New Latin -phaga) + -idae; 'Phago' is a term used as a prefix in Latin meaning 'Eating' or 'swallowing'. Phago ultimately comes from the Greek phageîn, which means “to eat, devour.”
The genus name comes from Ancient Greek peri - 'very', and krokotus 'saffron-coloured'.

Small minivet 
(Phường chèo nhỏ, Pericrocotus cinnamomeus)

The small minivet (Pericrocotus cinnamomeus) is a small passerine bird. 
The bird is found in tropical southern Asia from the Indian subcontinent east to Indonesia.

Campephagidae: New Latin, from Campephaga, type genus (from Greek kampē caterpillar + New Latin -phaga) + -idae; 'Phago' is a term used as a prefix in Latin meaning 'Eating' or 'swallowing'. Phago ultimately comes from the Greek phageîn, which means “to eat, devour.”
The genus name comes from Ancient Greek peri - 'very', and krokotus 'saffron-coloured'.
cinnamomeus Latin for cinnamon-coloured.

Ashy minivet 
(Phường chèo trắng lớn, Pericrocotus divaricatus)

The ashy minivet (Pericrocotus divaricatus) is a passerine bird of eastern Asia belonging to the minivet genus Pericrocotus in the cuckooshrike family Campephagidae.

The minivets are passerine birds belonging to the genus Pericrocotus in the cuckooshrike family Campephagidae.

Campephagidae: New Latin, from Campephaga, type genus (from Greek kampē caterpillar + New Latin -phaga) + -idae; 'Phago' is a term used as a prefix in Latin meaning 'Eating' or 'swallowing'. Phago ultimately comes from the Greek phageîn, which means “to eat, devour.”

Campephagidae containing the cuckooshrikes and allies is a family of passerine birds found in the subtropical and tropical Africa, Asia and Australasia.
Cuckooshrikes are not closely related to either the cuckoos or to the shrikes.

Campephagidae: New Latin, from Campephaga, type genus (from Greek kampē caterpillar + New Latin -phaga) + -idae; 'Phago' is a term used as a prefix in Latin meaning 'Eating' or 'swallowing'. Phago ultimately comes from the Greek phageîn, which means “to eat, devour.”

Woodswallows are soft-plumaged, somber-coloured passerine birds in the genus Artamus of the family Artamidae.
The generic name Artamus is derived from the Ancient Greek artamos, meaning butcher or murder.

1/ Ashy woodswallow (Nhạn rừng, Artamus fuscus), sometimes also called the ashy swallow-shrike

Artamidae is a family of passerine birds found in Australia, the Indo-Pacific region, and Southern Asia.

The crag martins are five species of small passerine birds in the genus Ptyonoprogne of the swallow family.

1/ Dusky crag martin (Nhạn nâu hung, Ptyonoprogne concolor)

Hirundinidae: Latin hirundo swallow.
The genus name Ptyonoprogne is derived from the Greek ptuon (πτύον), "a fan", referring to the shape of the opened tail, and Procne (Πρόκνη), a mythological girl who was turned into a swallow.

Dusky crag martin 
(Nhạn nâu hung, Ptyonoprogne concolor)

The dusky crag martin (Ptyonoprogne concolor) is a small passerine bird in the swallow family Hirundinidae.

Hirundinidae: Latin hirundo swallow.
The genus name Ptyonoprogne is derived from the Greek ptuon (πτύον), "a fan", referring to the shape of the opened tail, and Procne (Πρόκνη), a mythological girl who was turned into a swallow.
The specific concolor is from Latin, con "together", and color "colour" and refers to the bird's uniform colouration.

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