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.

Xenus is a genus of waders containing only one member, Terek sandpiper (Xenus cinereus).

1/ Terek sandpiper (Choắt chân màng bé, Xenus cinereus) 
It is named after the Terek River which flows into the west of the Caspian Sea where it was first observed.
The genus name Xenus is from Ancient Greek xenos meaning "stranger"; the specific epithet cinereus is Latin for "ash-grey" from cinis, cineris, "ashes".

Tringa is a genus of waders, containing the shanks and tattlers. The name Tringa is the Neo-Latin name given to the green sandpiper based on Ancient Greek trungas, a thrush-sized, white-rumped, tail-bobbing wading bird mentioned by Aristotle.

1/ Green sandpiper (Choắt bụng trắng, Tringa ochropus)
2/ Wood sandpiper (Choắt bụng xám, Tringa glareola)
The specific epithet glareola is from Latin glarea, " gravel".
3/ Spotted redshank (Choắt chân đỏ, Tringa erythropus)
The specific erythropus is from Ancient Greek eruthros, "red", and pous, "foot".
4/ Marsh sandpiper (Choắt đốm đen, Tringa stagnatilis)
The specific epithet stagnatilis is from Latin stagnum, "swamp".
5/ Common greenshank (Choắt lớn, Tringa nebularia)
The specific nebularia is from Latin nebula "mist". 
6/ Nordmann's greenshank (Choắt lớn mỏ vàng, Tringa guttifer) or the spotted greenshank
7/ Grey-tailed tattler (Choắt lùn đuôi xám, Tringa brevipes), also known as the Siberian tattler or Polynesian tattler,
formerly Heteroscelus brevipes.
The specific brevipes is from Latin brevis, "short", and pes, "foot".

Green sandpiper (Choắt bụng trắng, Tringa ochropus)

The green sandpiper (Tringa ochropus) is a small wader (shorebird) of the Old World.


The term Charadriiformes comes from New Latin, combining the Greek word kharadrios ("a bird of river valleys" or "a bird of ravines") and the Latin suffix -formes meaning "forms" or "shaped like". Therefore, Charadriiformes translates to "birds shaped like or resembling the charadrius," which is a type of plover or stone curlew historically found in dry river beds or ravines. 

The word Scolopacidae is New Latin, derived from the genus name Scolopax (Latin for "snipe" or "woodcock") and the common zoological suffix for family names, -idae.

The name Tringa is the Neo-Latin name given to the green sandpiper based on Ancient Greek trungas, a thrush-sized, white-rumped, tail-bobbing wading bird mentioned by Aristotle.
The specific ochropus is from Ancient Greek okhros, "ochre", and pous, "foot".

Scolopacidae is a large family of shorebirds, or waders, which mainly includes many species known as sandpipers, but also others such as curlews and snipes.

The genus name comes from Latin recurvus, 'curved backwards' and rostrum, 'bill'.

1/ Pied avocet (Cà kheo mỏ cong, Recurvirostra avosetta)

Himantopus is a bird genus commonly known as stilt in the family Recurvirostridae.
The generic name Himantopus comes from the Ancient Greek meaning "strap-leg".

1/ Black-winged stilt (Cà kheo, Himantopus himantopus)

The Recurvirostridae are a family of birds in the wader suborder Charadrii in the bird order Charadriiformes. 
It contains two distinct groups of birds, the avocets (one genus) and the stilts (two genera).

Esacus is a genus of bird in the stone-curlew family Burhinidae. The genus contains two species: the great stone-curlew and the beach stone-curlew.
The name is from Ancient Greek aisakos an unidentified bird variously associated with a robin, a shorebird or a cormorant.

1/ Great stone-curlew or great thick-knee (Rẽ mỏ to, Esacus recurvirostris)
The specific epithet recurvirostris combines Latin recurvis meaning "bent backwards" with -rostris meaning "-billed".

Burhinus is a genus of birds in the family Burhinidae. The genus name Burhinus comes from the Greek bous for ox, and rhis for nose.

1/ Eurasian stone-curlew, Eurasian thick-knee, or simply stone-curlew (Burhinus oedicnemus) 
The species epithet oedicnemus combines the Greek oidio meaning "to swell", and kneme meaning "shin" or "leg".

Burhinidae is a bird family which is often known as stone-curlews, or dikkops or thick-knees.
The family contains three genera: Hesperoburhinus, Burhinus and Esacus. The name Burhinus combines the Ancient Greek bous meaning "ox" and rhis, rhinos meaning "nose" (or "bill").

The stone-curlews are not closely related to the curlews, genus Numenius, that belong to the sandpiper family Scolopacidae.

Charadriiformes, from Charadrius, the type genus of family Charadriidae) is a diverse order of small to medium-large birds. 
Most members of this order can also collectively be referred to as shorebirds.

Charadriiformes, Charadriidae, Charadrius: Late Latin word for a yellowish bird mentioned in the fourth-century Vulgate; from Ancient Greek kharadrios a bird found in ravines and river valleys (kharadra, "ravine").

Harpactes is a genus of birds in the family Trogonidae found in forests in South and Southeast Asia, extending into southernmost China.

1/ Red-headed trogon (Nuốc bụng đỏ, Harpactes erythrocephalus)
The epithet comes from the Ancient Greek terms eruthros meaning red, and kephale meaning head.
2/ Orange-breasted trogon (Nuốc bụng vàng, Harpactes oreskios)
3/ Ward's trogon (Nuốc đuôi hồng, Harpactes wardi)

Harpactes harpax or harpago (Koinē Greek: ἅρπαγα literal "grabber, seizer, robber"; GEN ἅρπαγος harpagos)

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