Birds of Vietnam, Bird Species in Vietnam
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Pellorneidae
- Genus: Pellorneum
Puff-throated babbler or spotted babbler
(Chuối tiêu ngực đốm, Pellorneum ruficeps)
The puff-throated babbler or spotted babbler is a species of passerine bird found in Asia.
Pellorneidae, Pellorneum: combines the Ancient Greek pellos meaning "dark-coloured" with orneon meaning "bird".
ruficeps Latin rufus red, ruddy; -ceps -headed.
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Timaliidae
- Genus: Pomatorhinus
White-browed Scimitar Babbler
(Họa mi đất mày trắng, Pomatorhinus schisticeps)
The white-browed scimitar babbler is a species of jungle bird with long downcurved bills in the family Timaliidae.
Difference:
- Red-billed Scimitar-Babbler (Pomatorhinus ochraceiceps): Red bill, ruffous or brownish cap,
- White-browed Scimitar-Babbler (Pomatorhinus schisticeps): Yellow bill, gray or slaty cap, ruffous-red feather on the sides of the nape.
Timaliidae, Timalia: The word "Timalo" originates in the Greek "Thimalos", which means "bird". This Greek root was adapted to Latin as "Timalus" and later to Portuguese as "Timalo".
Pomarinus Pomatorhinus / pomatorhinus Greek: poma,pomatos lid, cover; rhis, rhinos nostrils.
schisticeps: schistus slate ( schistos type of fissile stone); -ceps -headed, -fold
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Pycnonotidae
- Genus: Iole
The Gray-eyed Bulbul
(Cành cạch nhỏ, Iole propinqua)
Gray-eyed Bulbul is a species of songbird in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae.
The family name is from Greek: puknos "thick" or "compact" and -nōtos "-backed".
Iole is a feminine name of Greek origin, meaning "violet flower."
propinquus (feminine propinqua, neuter propinquum, comparative propinquior): near, hence, close to, related to, neighborhood, similar.
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Pycnonotidae
- Genus: Alophoixus
Ochraceous Bulbul
(Cành cạch bụng hung, Alophoixus ochraceus)
The ochraceous bulbul (Alophoixus ochraceus) is a species of songbird in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae.
Difference between the puff-throated bulbul (Alophoixus pallidus) vs ochraceous bulbul (Alophoixus ochraceus): former is lighter and paler than latter; under body of the former is more yellowish than the latter.
The family name is from Greek: puknos "thick" or "compact" and -nōtos "-backed".
Alophoixus Greek: alophos crestless; genus Ixos: Greek mistletoe;
ochre, Ochraceous: brownish yellow, Latin from ōchra (“ochre”) + -āceus, from Ancient Greek ὠχρός (ōkhrós, “wan”), from ὤχρα (ṓkhra, “yellow ochre”).
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Pycnonotidae
- Genus: Pycnonotus
Stripe-throated Bubul, or streak-throated bulbul
(Bông lau họng vạch, Pycnonotus finlaysoni)
The stripe-throated bulbul, or streak-throated bulbul, is a species of songbird in the bulbul family of passerine birds.
The genus name is from Greek: puknos "thick" or "compact" and -nōtos "-backed".
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Pycnonotidae
- Genus: Rubigula
Black-crested Bulbul
(Rubigula flaviventris, Chào mào vàng mào đen)
The black-crested bulbul is a member of the bulbul family Pycnonotidae of passerine birds.
Pycnonotidae
pycno-
Pycnonotus
puknos "thick" or "compact" and
-nōtos "-backed".
Rubigula: combines the Medieval Latin rubinus meaning "ruby" with Latin gula meaning "throat".
flaviventris: New Latin; from flāvus (“yellow”) + venter (“belly”).
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Pnoepygidae
- Genus: Pnoepyga
Pygmy Cupwing, or pygmy wren-babbler
(Khướu đất đuôi cụt Pigmi, Pnoepyga pusilla)
Pnoepyga, Pnoepygidae: pnoe [Greek] πνοή (pnoē): wind, breath, breeze, soul; pyga: puge meaning "rump".
pusillus, pusilla: very little, very small, tiny
The pygmy cupwing or pygmy wren-babbler, is a species of bird in the Pnoepyga wren-babblers family, Pnoepygidae.
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Laniidae
- Genus: Lanius
Burmese Shrike
(Bách thanh nhỏ, Lanius collurioides)
Laniidae, Lanius: derived from the Latin word for "butcher".
The suffix -ides means "son or descendant of".
collurio from the Greek “kollurion”, name already mentioned by Aristotle to indicate a small bird having aggressive attitudes.
"shrike" is from Middle English *schrike, *schryke, from Old English sċrīc, "shriek", from the same root as shriek and screech, referring to the bird's shrill cry or call.
Burmese Shrike is a passerine bird in the genus Lanius of the shrike family Laniidae.
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Oriolidae
- Genus: Oriolus
Slender-billed oriole (Oriolus tenuirostris)
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Oriolidae, Oriolus, "Oriole" derives from the Latin word aureolus meaning "golden".
tenui-: in L. comp., slender, thin, fine.
rostris: bill.
The slender-billed oriole is a species of bird in the family Oriolidae found from the eastern Himalayas to Southeast Asia.
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Vireonidae
- Genus: Erpornis
White-bellied erpornis
(Khướu mào bụng trắng, Erpornis zantholeuca) or simply erpornis
Formerly placed in Yuhina and often still misleadingly called "white-bellied yuhina".
"Vireo" is a Latin word referring to a green migratory bird; other possible meanings: green, fresh, verdant, vigorous...
Erpornis : Greek word herpo – to creep about ; ornis- bird.
Zantholeuca : Greek word xanthos – yellow; leukos – white.
The white-bellied erpornis or simply erpornis is the only member of the genus Erpornis of the family Vireonidae.
- Order: Galliformes
- Family: Phasianidae
- Genus: Tropicoperdix
Green-legged partridge, also known as the scaly-breasted partridge or green-legged hill-partridge
(Gà so ngực gụ, Tropicoperdix chloropus)
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).
trópico m (plural trópicos), tropic (either of the two parallels north and south of the equator);
Perdix (Ancient Greek: Πέρδιξ means "partridge";
the Greek chloropus (khloros χλωρός green or yellow; pous πούς foot).
The green-legged partridge, also known as the scaly-breasted partridge or green-legged hill-partridge, is a bird species in the family Phasianidae.
The Vietnam partridge, Annam partridge, or Annam hill partridge, Tonkin Partridge, Tropicoperdix chloropus merlini, is now usually considered a subspecies of the green-legged partridge.
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Fringillidae
- Genus: Loxia
Red crossbill or common crossbill
(Mỏ chéo, Loxia curvirostra)
Fringillidae, Fringilla: in Latin, a small bird, possibly the robin or the chaffinch, finch
Loxia: From Ancient Greek λοξός (loxós, “slanting, crosswise”).
curvirostra is Latin for "curved bill".
curvus meaning "curved"
-rostris meaning "billed".
The red crossbill or common crossbill is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae.