Cat Tien National Park in southern is a favorite birding place for Vietnamese bird watchers as well as seasoned birders from overseas.
Bird watching at Cat Tien can be done by jeep which assists you on a birding trail through the grassland of the national park. Alternatively, you can go birdwatching on bicycle through the grassland area of Cat Tien, but this may pose some dangers due to frequent presence of wild gaurs and elephants. Another option for birding at Cat Tien is on foot which is convenient around the headquarters of the national park, but this makes it difficult to travel farther afield.
The birds with a alack head in Vietnam could be:
1/ Black-headed Sibia
Heterophasia desgodinsi
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2/ Black-headed bunting
(Emberiza melanocephala)
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3/ Chat (Saxicola):
Siberian stonechat or Asian stonechat (Saxicola maurus),
Amur stonechat (Saxicola stejnegeri) or Stejneger's stonechat
The birds in Vietnam with black marks (some with a triangular shape) around the eyes could be:
1/ Golden Babbler
(Cyanoderma chrysaeum)
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2/ Golden bush robin
(Tarsiger chrysaeus)
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3/ Shrike: Black marks across the eyes
4/ Oriole: Black marks across the eyes
5/ Nuthatch: Black marks across the eyes
6/ Scimitar babbler: Black (or gray) marks across the eyes
7/ Woodshrike: common and large woodshrike
The birds in Vietnam with white eyebrows could be:
1/ White-browed bush robin (Tarsiger indicus)
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2/ Snowy-browed flycatcher (Ficedula hyperythra)
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3/ Mugimaki flycatcher (Ficedula mugimaki)
4/ Rufous-gorgeted flycatcher (Ficedula strophiata)
5/ Little pied flycatcher (Ficedula westermanni)
6/ Scimitar-babbler
The birds in Vietnam with bright yellow eyebrows could be:
1/ Narcissus flycatcher (Ficedula narcissina)
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Male
The birds in Vietnam with ruby-colored triangle on the throat could be:
1/ Siberian rubythroat (Calliope calliope)
Male
The birds in Vietnam with a white triangle on the throat could be:
1/ White-gorgeted flycatcher (Anthipes monileger)
The birds in Vietnam with orange-colored triangle or orange line on the throat could be:
1/ Rufous-gorgeted flycatcher (Ficedula strophiata)
The bird in Vietnam with a blue or white line on the base of the neck could be:
1/ Birds of the genus Niltava
The birds in Vietnam with blue color on the throat could be:
1/ Blue-bearded bee-eater (Nyctyornis athertoni)
2/ Bluethroat (Luscinia svecica)
The difference between the Asian Barred Owlet and the Collared Owlet:
1/ Asian barred owlet (Glaucidium cuculoides), also known as the cuckoo owlet
- Head: barred;
2/ The collared owlet (Taenioptynx brodiei), also known as the collared pygmy owl
- Head: spotted
