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Red-necked Phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus, Rẽ cổ đỏ) is a medium-sized wader, Scolopacidae family, Phalaropus genus.

The bird is a pass-through winter bird, uncommonly sighted at the Xuan Thuy National Park.

The Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres, Rẽ khoang) is a wading bird in Scolopacidae family, genus Arenaria.

Ruddy-breasted crake 
or ruddy crake
(Cuốc ngực nâu, Zapornia fusca)

The ruddy-breasted crake (Zapornia fusca), or ruddy crake, is a waterbird in the rail and crake family Rallidae.

Gruiformes, Gruidae: from the Latin word grus meaning "crane".
Rallidae: from rallus new Latin for rail, an aquatic bird.
The genus name Zapornia is an anagram of the genus Porzana which is from the specific name of a crake.
fusca: Latin fuscus brown.

Ruff (Calidris pugnax, Rẽ lớn ngực đốm) is a medium-sized wader, Scolopacidae family, Calidris genus.

The bird is a visiting winter bird, uncommonly sighted at the Xuan Thuy National Park.

Saunders's gull or the Chinese black-headed gull (Mòng biển mỏ ngắn, Chroicocephalus saundersi) is a species of gull in the family Laridae. The Saunders's gull is named after the British ornithologist Howard Saunders.

Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (Calidris acuminata, Rẽ đuôi nhọn) is a small wader, Scolopacidae family, Calidris genus.

The bird is a visiting winter bird, uncommonly sighted at the Xuan Thuy National Park.

The slaty-breasted rail (Gallirallus striatus, Gà nước vằn) is a species of rail found in the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia.

Spoon-billed sandpiper (Rẽ mỏ thìa, Calidris pygmeus, Calidris pygmaea), a critically threatened species, is a small wader which breeds in north-eastern Russia and winters in Southeast Asia. The birds are frequently sighted birds at the Xuan Thuy National Park in winter.

Spot-billed duck (Vịt giời, Vịt mỏ đốm, Anas poecilorhyncha) is a large dabbling duck that is a non-migratory breeding duck throughout freshwater wetlands in the Indian subcontinent. The name is derived from the red spot at the base of the bill that is found in the mainland Indian population.

The spot-billed pelican (Pelecanus philippensis) or grey pelican (Bồ nông chân xám, Pelecanus philippensis), is a member of the pelican family.

Spotted dove (Cu gáy, Cu đất, Spilopelia chinensis)
Another name was Streptopelia chinensis.
Formerly included in the genus Streptopelia with other turtle-doves, but studies suggest that they differ from typical members of that genus. 

The spotted dove or eastern spotted dove (Spilopelia chinensis) is a small and long-tailed pigeon, a common resident across its native range on the Indian subcontinent and in East and Southeast Asia.

Columba, Columbidae: Latin columba (“dove, pigeon”). Ancient Greek κόλυμβος (kólumbos, “a diver”), from κολυμβάω (kolumbáō, “dive, plunge headlong, swim”).
The name Spilopelia combines the Ancient Greek spilos meaning "spot" and peleia meaning "dove".

Spotted Redshank (Choắt chân đỏ, Tringa erythropus) is a wader (shorebird) in the large bird family Scolopacidae.

Thick-Billed Green Pigeon 
(Cu xanh mỏ quặp, Treron curvirostra)

The thick-billed green pigeon is a species of bird in the family Columbidae.

Columbidae, Columba: Latin columba (“dove, pigeon”). Ancient Greek κόλυμβος (kólumbos, “a diver”), from κολυμβάω (kolumbáō, “dive, plunge headlong, swim”).
Pigeon is a French word that derives from the Latin pīpiō, for a "peeping" chick;
Dove is an ultimately Germanic word that refers to the bird's diving flight.
The genus name Treron is from the Ancient Greek trērōn meaning "pigeon" or "dove".
curvirostra is Latin for "curved bill".

Todiramphus is a genus of kingfishers in the subfamily Halcyoninae that are endemic to the Philippines, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand and many islands in the South Pacific.

1/ Collared kingfisher(Sả khoang cổ, Todiramphus chloris), also white-collared kingfisher, black-masked kingfisher or mangrove kingfisher 

Alcedo, Alcedinidae: Latin word for kingfisher. 
The genus name Todiramphus literally means "tody-bill"; tody is a relative of the kingfishers with a similar slender long bill, and the Greek rhamphos (ῥάµϕος) means "beak" or "bill".

Tufted duck (Vịt mào, Aythya fuligula) is a small diving duck found in northern Eurasia. The duck is migratory in most of its range, and overwinters in the milder south and west of Europe, southern Asia and all year in most of the United Kingdom.

Western swamphen 
(Xít, Porphyrio porphyrio)

The western swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio) is a species of swamphen in the rail family Rallidae, one of the six species once referred to as the purple swamphen. 

Gruiformes, Gruidae: from the Latin word grus meaning "crane".
Rallidae: from rallus new Latin for rail, an aquatic bird.
The genus name Porphyrio is the Latin name for "swamphen", meaning "purple".

The Eurasian whimbrel or common whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus) is a wader in the large family Scolopacidae, the genus Numenius. The whimbrel is a passthrough, winter bird commonly sighted at the Xuan Thuy National Park.

White-breasted waterhen 
(Cuốc ngực trắng, Amaurornis phoenicurus)
The species name phoenicurus is from Ancient Greek phoinix, "red", and -ouros -"tailed".

The white-breasted waterhen (Amaurornis phoenicurus) is a waterbird of the rail and crake family, Rallidae, that is widely distributed across South and Southeast Asia. 

Gruiformes, Gruidae: from the Latin word grus meaning "crane".
Rallidae: from rallus new Latin for rail, an aquatic bird.
Amaurornis: the Greek amauros, meaning "dusky" or "brown", and ornis, meaning "bird".

White-throated kingfisher 
(Sả đầu nâu, Halcyon smyrnensis)

The white-throated kingfisher (Halcyon smyrnensis) also known as the white-breasted kingfisher is a tree kingfisher, widely distributed in Asia from the Sinai east through the Indian subcontinent to China and Indonesia.

Wood sandpiper (Choắt bụng xám, Tringa glareola)

The Wood Sandpiper (Tringa glareola, Choắt bụng xám) is a small wader in the large family Scolopacidae, sandpiper, Tringa genus. Wood Sandpiper is a pass-through winter bird commonly sighted at the Xuan Thuy National Park.

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 comes from the Ancient Greek word trungas, meaning "wader". 

The specific epithet glareola is from Latin glarea, " gravel".
Glareola is a Latin word that means "gravel," derived from glarea, a diminutive of "gravel". The name likely refers to the patterns on the back of the bird.
Diminutive suffix: The name uses the diminutive suffix "-ola," turning "gravel" into "little gravel".