Hanoi is a beautiful city situated alongside the Red River, the longest river in northern Vietnam. It also boasts many beautiful sandy beaches along its banks, creating numerous habitats and spaces for various wild bird species, including sparrows, finches, warblers, bulbuls, and many other bird species… Read more Cuc Phuong bird list

In addition, within Hanoi city there are many green spaces such as Thong Nhat Park, West Lake, Hoan Kiem Lake and Botanical Garden… In these places, we sometimes encounter various birds such as bulbuls, flycatchers, swallows, sparrows, magpies, larks, pigeons, fan-tailed birds, thrushes, and warblers… Sometimes you might even see a finch perched on the trees along Nguyen Du Street. As I write this article in May 2026, we have encountered several species of bitten, storks, night herons, and kingfishers in the Hoan Kiem Lake area…

Based on recent observations and data recorded by birdwatchers over the past few years, we present the following list of root-like species: (This bird list write from A to Z)

A.

• Amur Falcon
• Amur Paradise-Flycatcher
• Amur Stonechat
• Amur/Blyth’s Paradise-Flycatcher
• Arctic Warbler
• Ashy Drongo
• Asian Barred Owlet
• Asian Brown Flycatcher
• Asian Koel
• Asian Palm Swift
• Asian Stubtail
• Asian Tit

B.

• Barn Swallow
• Bianchi’s Warbler
• Black Drongo
• Black Kite
• Black-breasted Thrush
• Black-capped Kingfisher
• Black-crowned Night Heron
• Black-naped Monarch
• Black-naped Oriole
• Blue Whistling-Thrush
• Blue-and-white Flycatcher
• Bluethroat
• Blyth’s Paradise-Flycatcher
• Brown Shrike
• Brown-chested Jungle Flycatcher
• Bulbuls
• Burmese Shrike
• Bush Warblers and Allies

C.

• Chestnut Bunting
• Chestnut-crowned Warbler
• Chinese Blackbird
• Chinese Pond-Heron
• Chinese Sparrowhawk
• Cinnamon Bittern
• Cisticolas and Allies
• Claudia’s Leaf Warbler
• Collared Scops-Owl
• Common Hoopoe
• Common Kingfisher
• Common Myna
• Common Tailorbird
• Crested Goshawk
• Crimson Sunbird
• Crow-billed Drongo
• Cuckoos

D.

• Dark swiftlet (sp).
• Dark-necked Tailorbird
• Dark-sided Flycatcher
• Daurian Redstart
• drongo sp.
• Drongos
• Dusky Warbler

E.

• Eastern Barn Owl
• Eastern Cattle-Egret
• Eastern Crowned Warbler
• Eastern Red-rumped Swallow
• Estrildids
• Eurasian Hobby
• Eurasian Kestrel
• Eurasian Tree Sparrow
• Eyebrowed Thrush

F.

• Fairy Flycatchers
• Fairy Pitta
• Falcons and Caracaras
• Fantails
• Ferruginous Flycatcher
• Ficedula sp.
• Finches, Euphonias, and Allies
• Fire-breasted Flowerpecker
• flowerpecker sp.
• Flowerpeckers
• Forest Wagtail
• Fork-tailed Sunbird
• Fujian Niltava

G.

• Gray Bushchat
• Gray Nightjar
• Gray Wagtail
• Gray-backed Thrush
• Gray-crowned Warbler
• Gray-crowned/Bianchi’s Warbler
• Gray-headed Canary-Flycatcher
• Gray-throated Martin
• Greater Coucal
• Grebes
• Green-backed Flycatcher
• gull sp.
• Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers

H.

• Hainan Blue Flycatcher
• Hair-crested Drongo
• Herons, Ibis, and Allies
• Hill Blue Flycatcher
• Hoopoes
• Horornis sp.
• House Sparrow
• House Swift
• Indian Cuckoo

J.

• Japanese Leaf/Arctic/Kamchatka Leaf Warbler
• Japanese Sparrowhawk
• Japanese Thrush
• Jays, Magpies, Crows, and Ravens

K.

• Kingfishers

L.

• Large-billed Crow
• Laughingthrushes and Allies
• Leaf Warblers
• Lesser Shortwing
• Light-vented Bulbul
• Little Bunting
• Little Egret
• Little Grebe
• Little Heron
• Little Spiderhunter
• Long-tailed Shrike

M.

• Manchurian Bush Warbler
• Martins and Swallows
• Microtarsus/Rubigula/Pycnonotus sp.
• Monarch Flycatchers
• Mugimaki Flycatcher

N.

• Narcissus Flycatcher
• Nightjars

O.

• Old World Buntings
• Old World Flycatchers
• Old World Orioles
• Old World Pittas
• Old World Sparrows
• Olive-backed Pipit
• Oriental Greenfinch
• Oriental Honey-buzzard
• Oriental Magpie-Robin
• Oriental Reed Warbler
• Ornate Sunbird
• Owls

P.

• Pacific Swift
• Pale-legged Leaf Warbler
• Pallas’s Leaf Warbler
• Parus sp.
• passerine sp.
• Phylloscopus sp.
• pigeon/dove sp.
• Pigeons and Doves
• Plain Flowerpecker
• Plain Prinia
• Plaintive Cuckoo
• pond-heron sp.
• prinia sp.

R.

• Radde’s Warbler
• Rails, Gallinules, and Allies
• Red Collared-Dove
• Red-billed Leiothrix
• Red-flanked Bluetail
• Reed Warblers and Allies
• Rock Pigeon
• Ruddy-breasted Crake
• Rufescent Prinia
• Rufous-gorgeted Flycatcher
• Rufous-tailed Robin

S.

• Scaly-breasted Munia
• Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker
• Shikra
• shrike sp.
• Shrikes
• Siberian Blue Robin
• Siberian Rubythroat
• Siberian Thrush
• Silver-backed Needletail
• Small Niltava
• Snowy-browed Flycatcher
• Sooty-headed Bulbul
• Spotted Dove
• Starlings and Mynas
• Sulphur-breasted Warbler
• Sunbirds and Spiderhunters
• swallow sp.
• swift sp.
• Swifts
• Swinhoe’s White-eye

T.

• Taiga Flycatcher
• Thick-billed Warbler
• Thrushes
• Tiger Shrike
• Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice
• Two-barred Warbler
• Verditer Flycatcher
• Vultures, Hawks, and Allies

W.

• wagtail sp.
• Wagtails and Pipits
• White Wagtail
• White-breasted Waterhen
• White-browed Crake
• white-eye sp.
• White-eyes, Yuhinas, and Allies
• White-nest Swiftlet
• White-rumped Munia
• White’s Thrush
• White-tailed Robin
• White-throated Fantail
• White-throated Kingfisher
• White-throated Rock-Thrush
• Yellow-bellied Prinia
• Yellow-browed Warbler
• Yellow-browed/Hume’s Warbler
• Yellow-rumped Flycatcher
• Yellow-streaked Warbler

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