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Stercorariidae is a bird family also known as Skuas or Jaegers which includes predatory and kleptoparasitic seabirds.
The family has a single genus of Stercorarius.
The birds of this family are long-distance migrants.

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.

The English word "skua" comes from the Faroese name for the great skua, skúgvur [ˈskɪkvʊɹ].
The word "jaeger" or Jäger is German for "hunter".
The genus name Stercorarius (and the family name Stercorariidae) is Latin and means "of dung"; the food, once thought to be excrement, disgorged by other birds when pursued by skuas.

Stercorarius is the single genus of the family Stercorariidae, also known as skuas or jaegers.
The birds of this family are long-distance migrants.

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.

The English word "skua" comes from the Faroese name for the great skua, skúgvur [ˈskɪkvʊɹ].
The word "jaeger" or Jäger is German for "hunter".
The genus name Stercorarius (and the family name Stercorariidae) is Latin and means "of dung"; the food, once thought to be excrement, disgorged by other birds when pursued by skuas.

Sterna is a genus of terns in the bird family Laridae.
Sterna is derived from Old English "stearn" which appears in the poem The Seafarer (1000 years after C.E).

1/ Common tern (Nhàn, Sterna hirundo) 
The Latin for swallow is hirundo, and refers here to the tern's superficial likeness to that unrelated bird, which has a similar light build and long forked tail. This leads to the informal name "sea swallow".

2/ Black-bellied tern (Nhàn bụng đen, Sterna acuticauda)

3/ Roseate tern (Nhàn hồng, Sterna dougallii)

4/ Black-naped tern (Nhàn Xumatra, Sterna sumatrana)

Sternula is a genus of small white terns in the family Laridae.
The genus name is a diminutive of Sterna, "tern".

1/ Little tern (Nhàn nhỏ, Sternula albifrons)
The specific albifrons is from Latin albus, 'white', and frons, 'forehead'.

Synthliboramphus is a small genus of seabirds in the auk family from the North Pacific.

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").

The word 'auk' /ɔːk/ is derived from Icelandic álka and Norwegian alka or alke, from Old Norse ālka, from Proto-Germanic *alkǭ (sea-bird, auk).

The family name Alcidae comes from the genus name Alca, from the Norwegian word alke.

The genus name Synthliboramphus is from Ancient Greek sunthlibo, "to compress", and rhamphos, "bill".

The English name "Murrelet" is a diminutive of "murre" without clear origins.

Thalasseus, the crested terns, is a genus of eight species of terns in the family Laridae.
The generic name is derived from the Ancient Greek Thalassa meaning "sea".

1/ Greater crested tern (Nhàn mào, Thalasseus bergii), also called crested tern or swift tern
 The species epithet bergii commemorates Carl Heinrich Bergius, a Prussian pharmacist and botanist who collected the first specimens of this tern near Cape Town.

Buttonquail or hemipodes are members of a small family of birds, Turnicidae, of the order Charadriiformes collectively referred to as shorebirds.
Species of the Turnicidae resemble, but are not closely related to, the quails of Phasianidae.

The species of this family inhabit warm grasslands in Asia, Africa, Europe, and Australia.

Turnicidae is from Turnix abbreviation from genus Coturnix, quail(Coturnix is the Latin for the common quail); coined to reflect the quail-like appearance and lack of hind-toe.
hemipodes: Greek hemi half, semi; podes from Greek pous, podos foot (Latin pes).

Vanellus is the genus of waders which provisionally contains all lapwings except red-kneed dotterel, Erythrogonys cinctus. 

1/ River lapwing (Te cựa, Vanellus duvaucelii)

2/ Northern lapwing (Te mào, Vanellus vanellus), also known as the peewit or pewit, tuit or tewit, green plover, or (in Ireland and Great Britain) pyewipe or just lapwing

3/ Grey-headed lapwing (Te vàng, Vanellus cinereus)

4/ Red-wattled lapwing (Te vặt,Vanellus indicus)

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 family name Charadriidae has the same origin as the order name from the Greek word kharadrios ("a bird of river valleys" or "a bird of ravines").

Vanellus is a Latin word meaning "little fan". The name refers to the sound of the wings in flight, which was compared to the sound of a winnowing fan. It is a diminutive of the Latin word vannus (“fan for winnowing grain”).