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The birding guide to Vietnam

This book, the first comprehensive modern field guide dedicated to Vietnam’s rich and diverse avifauna, describes all 916 species in text, illustrations and distribution maps.

New flexible, water-resistant cover

This book is published in hardcover version and it is also available in a new flexible, water-resistant cover that is perfect for use in the field.

About Vietnam

Vietnam, home to rare secretive pheasants, jewel-like pittas, spectacular laughingthrushes and enigmatic babblers, is Asia’s most exciting new birding destination. A global biodiversity hotspot, Vietnam boasts 19 endemic species and subspecies groups, and another 27 near-endemic species, the largest number of any country in mainland South-East Asia. download free checklist

Videos, photos and sounds

Each account displays a QR codelinking to galleries of photos, videos and sounds.

Updated information

Detailed texts covering status, habitat and behaviour, age, sex and geographical variation, voice, and confusion species.

Free checklist download

It includes checkboxes to register sightings and valuable tips on hotspots for the most sought-after birds.

Bird figures

Over 1900 illustrations covering all species and distinctive subspecies, birds in flight, males and females, juveniles and non-breeding plumages, where appropriate

Maps

More than 870 full-colour range maps for all species other than vagrants.

Includes subspecies groups

Well-marked subspecies groups receive full accounts, and the distributions of subspecies breeding in the region are clearly mapped.

Technical details

  • ISBN-13: 978-84-16728-10-7
  • Language: English
  • Format: 23 x 16 cm
  • Hardcover or Flexi-cover
  • Pages: 400 pages
  • Publication date: December 2018
  • 916 species; 36 endemics or near-endemics, 2 introduced, 73 vagrants.
  • c. 1900 illustrations and over 870 distribution maps

Buy Birds of Vietnam for 45€

About the project

This project comes to life after years of conversations motivated by a shared idea between Lynx and BirdLife International that the existence of country field guides is a basic element for the “emergence” and education of birdwatchers, ornithologists, bird guides and naturalists in any given country, which, in turn, has important repercussions on the Conservation of Nature and Biodiversity, both locally and globally.