Bird AlbumVietnam · Hanoi
Red River Island
225 species and 4,754 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: March–April, with up to 94 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Chinese Pond HeronArdeola bacchus
Warbling White-eyeZosterops japonicus
White WagtailMotacilla alba
Eurasian Tree SparrowPasser montanus
Plain PriniaPrinia inornata
Common TailorbirdOrthotomus sutorius
Sooty-headed BulbulPycnonotus aurigaster
Amur StonechatSaxicola stejnegeri
Grey-throated MartinRiparia chinensis
Yellow-bellied PriniaPrinia flaviventris
Rock DoveColumba livia
Pied KingfisherCeryle rudis
Yellow-browed WarblerPhylloscopus inornatus
White-throated FantailRhipidura albicollisSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Tam Dao NP49 km273 species
- Ba Vi NP50 km225 species
- Van Long Nature Reserve77 km214 species
All 225 species recorded here
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow Passer montanus
- Plain Prinia Prinia inornata
- Common Tailorbird Orthotomus sutorius
- Yellow-bellied Prinia Prinia flaviventris
- Warbling White-eye Zosterops japonicus
- White Wagtail Motacilla alba
- Sooty-headed Bulbul Pycnonotus aurigaster
- Amur Stonechat Saxicola stejnegeri
- Greater Coucal Centropus sinensis
- Chinese Pond Heron Ardeola bacchus
- Spotted Dove Spilopelia chinensis
- Plaintive Cuckoo Cacomantis merulinus
- Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
- Grey-throated Martin Riparia chinensis
- Yellow-browed Warbler Phylloscopus inornatus
- Scaly-breasted Munia Lonchura punctulata
- White-throated Fantail Rhipidura albicollis
- Dusky Warbler Phylloscopus fuscatus
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Light-vented Bulbul Pycnonotus sinensis
- Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis
- Paddyfield Pipit Anthus rufulus
- Little Ringed Plover Thinornis dubius
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Common Kingfisher Alcedo atthis
- Brown Shrike Lanius cristatus
- Oriental Magpie-Robin Copsychus saularis
- Olive-backed Pipit Anthus hodgsoni
- White-breasted Waterhen Amaurornis phoenicurus
- Oriental Greenfinch Chloris sinica
- Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
- Taiga Flycatcher Ficedula albicilla
- Cinereous Tit Parus cinereus
- Ashy Drongo Dicrurus leucophaeus
- Siberian Rubythroat Calliope calliope
- Richard's Pipit Anthus richardi
- Black-naped Monarch Hypothymis azurea
- Asian Brown Flycatcher Muscicapa dauurica
- Hair-crested Drongo Dicrurus hottentottus
- Black Drongo Dicrurus macrocercus
- Red Collared Dove Streptopelia tranquebarica
- Black-browed Reed Warbler Acrocephalus bistrigiceps
- Black-naped Oriole Oriolus chinensis
- White-rumped Munia Lonchura striata
- Thick-billed Warbler Arundinax aedon
- Masked Laughingthrush Pterorhinus perspicillatus
- Burmese Shrike Lanius collurioides
- Asian Palm Swift Cypsiurus balasiensis
- Long-tailed Shrike Lanius schach
- Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
- Black-faced Bunting Emberiza spodocephala
- Barred Buttonquail Turnix suscitator
- Citrine Wagtail Motacilla citreola
- Eastern Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis daurica
- Red-throated Pipit Anthus cervinus
- Radde's Warbler Phylloscopus schwarzi
- Bluethroat Luscinia svecica
- Arctic Warbler Phylloscopus borealis
- Grey Bush Chat Saxicola ferreus
- Grey Wagtail Motacilla cinerea
- Claudia's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus claudiae
- Oriental Turtle Dove Streptopelia orientalis
- White-throated Kingfisher Halcyon smyrnensis
- Oriental Reed Warbler Acrocephalus orientalis
- Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
- Mugimaki Flycatcher Ficedula mugimaki
- Little Bunting Emberiza pusilla
- Chinese Blackbird Turdus mandarinus
- Grey-headed Canary-flycatcher Culicicapa ceylonensis
- Hainan Blue Flycatcher Cyornis hainanus
- Black-winged Cuckooshrike Lalage melaschistos
- Lesser Coucal Centropus bengalensis
- Yellow-rumped Flycatcher Ficedula zanthopygia
- Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
- Yellow Bittern Botaurus sinensis
- Eurasian Wryneck Jynx torquilla
- Dark-sided Flycatcher Muscicapa sibirica
- Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker Dicaeum cruentatum
- Crow-billed Drongo Dicrurus annectens
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Asian Stubtail Urosphena squameiceps
- Japanese Thrush Turdus cardis
- Eastern Yellow Wagtail Motacilla tschutschensis
- Pied Bush Chat Saxicola caprata
- Eastern Cattle Egret Ardea coromanda
- Edible-nest Swiftlet Aerodramus fuciphagus
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- Eastern Crowned Warbler Phylloscopus coronatus
- Pale-legged Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus tenellipes
- Eastern Marsh Harrier Circus spilonotus
- Hill Blue Flycatcher Cyornis whitei
- Blue Whistling Thrush Myophonus caeruleus
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
- Asian Koel Eudynamys scolopaceus
- Pale-footed Bush Warbler Hemitesia pallidipes
- Crested Honey Buzzard Pernis ptilorhynchus
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Crested Myna Acridotheres cristatellus
- Grey-faced Buzzard Butastur indicus
- Blue-and-white Flycatcher Cyanoptila cyanomelana
- Pin-tailed Snipe Gallinago stenura
- Daurian Redstart Phoenicurus auroreus
- Crested Serpent Eagle Spilornis cheela
- Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago
- Ashy Minivet Pericrocotus divaricatus
- Cinnamon Bittern Botaurus cinnamomeus
- Common Myna Acridotheres tristis
- Manchurian Bush Warbler Horornis canturians
- Chestnut Munia Lonchura atricapilla
- Large Hawk-Cuckoo Hierococcyx sparverioides
- Kentish Plover Anarhynchus alexandrinus
- Chestnut-winged Cuckoo Clamator coromandus
- Grey-backed Thrush Turdus hortulorum
- Tristram's Bunting Emberiza tristrami
- Garden Sunbird Cinnyris jugularis
- Eyebrowed Thrush Turdus obscurus
- Temminck's Stint Calidris temminckii
- White-throated Rock Thrush Monticola gularis
- Bianchi's Warbler Phylloscopus valentini
- Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus
- Forest Wagtail Dendronanthus indicus
- Sulphur-breasted Warbler Phylloscopus ricketti
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Black-collared Starling Gracupica nigricollis
- Rufescent Prinia Prinia rufescens
- Pied Harrier Circus melanoleucos
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- House Swift Apus nipalensis
- Oriental Pratincole Glareola maldivarum
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Blyth's Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone affinis
- Tiger Shrike Lanius tigrinus
- Siberian Blue Robin Larvivora cyane
- Grey Nightjar Caprimulgus jotaka
- Wedge-tailed Green Pigeon Treron sphenurus
- Japanese Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza gularis
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- Ruddy-breasted Crake Zapornia fusca
- Grey-breasted Prinia Prinia hodgsonii
- Dark-necked Tailorbird Orthotomus atrogularis
- Japanese Quail Coturnix japonica
- Grey-headed Lapwing Vanellus cinereus
- Two-barred Warbler Phylloscopus plumbeitarsus
- Grey-crowned Warbler Phylloscopus tephrocephalus
- Red-wattled Lapwing Vanellus indicus
- Shikra Tachyspiza badia
- Grey-streaked Flycatcher Muscicapa griseisticta
- Amur Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone incei
- Lanceolated Warbler Locustella lanceolata
- Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
- Asian Openbill Anastomus oscitans
- Crested Bunting Emberiza lathami
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Fire-breasted Flowerpecker Dicaeum ignipectus
- Chestnut Bunting Emberiza rutila
- Crested Goshawk Lophospiza trivirgata
- Black Bulbul Hypsipetes leucocephalus
- White-browed Crake Poliolimnas cinereus
- Red-billed Starling Spodiopsar sericeus
- Oriental Dollarbird Eurystomus orientalis
- Bronzed Drongo Dicrurus aeneus
- Oriental Cuckooshrike Coracina javensis
- Ashy Woodswallow Artamus fuscus
- Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo
- Crimson Sunbird Aethopyga siparaja
- Indian Cuckoo Cuculus micropterus
- Common Rosefinch Carpodacus erythrinus
- Rosy Pipit Anthus roseatus
- Rosy Minivet Pericrocotus roseus
- Striated Grassbird Megalurus palustris
- Black-breasted Thrush Turdus dissimilis
- Black Baza Aviceda leuphotes
- White-shouldered Starling Sturnia sinensis
- Great Myna Acridotheres grandis
- Common Hoopoe Upupa epops
- Chestnut Bulbul Hemixos castanonotus
- Jerdon's Baza Aviceda jerdoni
- Japanese Robin Larvivora akahige
- Hodgson's Hawk-Cuckoo Hierococcyx nisicolor
- Chinese Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza soloensis
- Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
- Pacific Golden Plover Pluvialis fulva
- Blue Rock Thrush Monticola solitarius
- Eastern Grass Owl Tyto longimembris
- Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus
- Yellow-legged Buttonquail Turnix tanki
- Silver-backed Needletail Hirundapus cochinchinensis
- Blue-winged Minla Actinodura cyanouroptera
- Medium Egret Ardea intermedia
- Western Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus
- Long-toed Stint Calidris subminuta
- Chinese Penduline Tit Remiz consobrinus
- Pallas's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus proregulus
- Greater Racket-tailed Drongo Dicrurus paradiseus
- Slaty-blue Flycatcher Ficedula tricolor
- Rufous-tailed Robin Larvivora sibilans
- Baikal Bush Warbler Locustella davidi
- Red Avadavat Amandava amandava
- Vinous-breasted Myna Acridotheres leucocephalus
- Small Niltava Niltava macgrigoriae
- Pied Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta
- Pin-striped Tit-Babbler Mixornis gularis
- Lesser Shortwing Brachypteryx leucophris
- Mountain Bulbul Ixos mcclellandii
- Daurian Starling Agropsar sturninus
- Green-backed Flycatcher Ficedula elisae
- White-throated Needletail Hirundapus caudacutus
- Swinhoe's Minivet Pericrocotus cantonensis
- Narcissus Flycatcher Ficedula narcissina
- Siberian Thrush Geokichla sibirica
- Blue-throated Bee-eater Merops viridis
- Hen Harrier Circus cyaneus
- Mountain Tailorbird Phyllergates cucullatus
- Streak-breasted Scimitar Babbler Pomatorhinus ruficollis
- Red-tailed Minla Minla ignotincta
- Paddyfield Warbler Acrocephalus agricola
- Grey-backed Shrike Lanius tephronotus
- Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
- Grey-eyed Bulbul Iole propinqua
- Black Bittern Botaurus flavicollis
- Fork-tailed Sunbird Aethopyga christinae
- Dusky Thrush Turdus eunomus
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Red River Island?
March–April. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 94 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Red River Island?
225 species, from 4,754 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Red River Island in November?
The most recorded in November: Chinese Pond Heron, Warbling White-eye, White Wagtail, Eurasian Tree Sparrow and Plain Prinia.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.