What is difference between the Laced Woodpecker, Grey-headed Woodpecker in Vietnam?
These two woodpeckers are quite similar: gray face, black cap, red front...But the key differences are
1/ Laced Woodpecker (Gecinulus grantia)
Streaked belly.
If having red, then the red covers: front, cap, nape.
Stripes on the edge of the wing are horizontal compared to the body.
2/ Grey-headed Woodpecker (Micropternus brachyurus)
Gray, or whitish or yellowish belly.
If having red color, then the red only covers the front.
Stripes on the edge of the wing are vertical compared to the body.
How to differenciate the Black Drongo and the Bronzed Drongo in nature in Vietnam:
1/ Black Drongo: consistent black color, slightly bigger in size
2/ Bronzed Drongo: there is an area from the cape to the wings with black sheen, glossiness; the face is black surrounded by black glossiness.
What is that scaly bird in Vietnam?
1/ Rock thrushes (Monticola)
Female)
2/ Scaly thrush, White's thrush... (Zoothera)
3/ Green-legged partridge (Tropicoperdix chloropus), also known as the scaly-breasted partridge or green-legged hill-partridge
What is that bird in Vietnam with upper body black and lower body white?
1/ Jerdon's bush chat (Saxicola jerdoni)
2/ Flycatcher-shrikes (Hemipus)
The bar-winged flycatcher-shrike
The black-winged flycatcher-shrike
3/ Little pied flycatcher (Ficedula westermanni)
The birds in Vietnam with rufous eyebrows could be:
1/ Rufous-browed flycatcher (Anthipes solitaris)
What is the name of the bird in Vietnam with a white stripe on each black wing?
1/ Oriental magpie-robin (Copsychus saularis)
2/ Bar-winged flycatcher-shrike (Hemipus picatus)
3/ Little pied flycatcher (Ficedula westermanni)
Male
If we consider the hood of a bird including the head, the neck and throat, then what is the name of the bird in Vietnam with black hood?
1/ Black-hooded oriole (Oriolus xanthornus)
2/ Blyth's paradise flycatcher (Terpsiphone affinis), also called the oriental paradise flycatcher
3/ Amur paradise flycatcher (Terpsiphone incei)
4/ Black paradise flycatcher (Terpsiphone atrocaudata), also known as the Japanese paradise flycatcher
5/ Chestnut munia or black-headed munia (Lonchura atricapilla)
6/ Collared laughingthrush (Trochalopteron yersini)
7/ Black-headed Bulbul
Microtarsus melanocephalos
If we consider the hood of a bird including the head, the neck and throat, then what is the name of a black-hooded bird in Vietnam with a white stripe on the nape?
1/ Red-billed blue magpie (Urocissa erythroryncha)
If we consider the hood of a bird including the head, the neck and throat, then what is the name of the bird in Vietnam with orange hood?
1/ Orange-headed thrush (Geokichla citrina)
2/ Japanese robin (Larvivora akahige)
The birds in Vietnam with a chestnut cap (or dark-browned cap) could be:
1/ Chestnut-capped babbler (Timalia pileata)
The birds in Vietnam with a rufous cap (or light-browned cap) could be:
1/ Rufous-capped babbler (Cyanoderma ruficeps)
The difference between Pale Blue, Blue-and-White, Hainan Flycatchers in Vietnam:
1/ Pale Blue Flycatcher
Cyornis unicolor
The male have light blue upper parts and very light blue and white lower parts.
The female have gray-brown colors, lack of warm coloration.
2/ Blue-and-white Flycatcher
Cyanoptila cyanomelana
The male have black face, black throat, black breast, royal blue upperparts.
The female have brown upperparts.
3/ Hainan Blue Flycatcher
Cyornis hainanus
The male have sapphire-blue upperparts, and sapphire-blue face. Some are with sapphire-blue throat or white throat or orange throat. Some are with black wings.
The female have orange breast and brown with warm tint uppperparts
