Artamidae
วงศ์นกแอ่นพง
woŋ nók àeen-pʰoŋ

General

Information is from dictionaries and other sources. Comments and corrections welcome. Hover over Green Lettering Green lettering at this site hides a tool tip with glosses, further explanations, etc. Hover cursor to reveal. to see additional information.

Thai calls the woodswallows นกแอ่นพง nók àeen pʰoŋ 'thicket-swallow (bird)', a calque on English.

The name is based on Thai แอ่น àeen, an old areal bird name akin to to the modern Chinese 燕 yàn and Vietnamese én, which means 'swallow; any of various swallow-like birds'. In modern Thai this name has been used as the base for the formation of bird names in several different families of birds of simllar appearance, principally the Hirundinidae (swallows) and Apodidae (swifts), but also including the Hemiprocnidae (treeswifts), Glareolidae (pratincoles), and Artamidae (woodswallows) - all of which remain แอ่น àeen in the traditional classification. An expanded discussion of àeen appears at the Hirundinidae.

Species names

SCIENTIFIC & WESTERN		THAI		OTHER S. E. ASIAN			EAST ASIAN
Artamus
Latin	English	Thai	Other Th	Malaysian	Indonesian	Vietnamese	Chinese	Japanese
Artamus fuscus	Ashy woodswallow Ashy wood swallow Ashy swallow shrike	นกแอ่นพง nók àeen pʰoŋ 'thicket-swallow (bird)'				Chim Nhạn rừng 'forest-swallow (bird)' (12, 13, 34)	灰燕鵙 (灰燕鵙) huī yàn-jú 'grey swallow-shrike'	ハイイロモリツバメ (灰色森燕) hai-iro mori-tsubame 'grey forest-swallow'

Danh Lục Chim Việt Nam (In lần thứ hai) (Checklist of the Birds of Vietnam) Võ Quý, Nguyễn Cử, Nhà Xuất Bản Nông Nghiệp, Hà Nội 1999

Chim Việt Nam Nguyễn Cử, Lê Trọng Trải, Karen Phillipps; Nhà Xuất Bản Lao Động - Xã Hội, 2000

Danh Lục Các Loài Chim ở Việt Nam (Latinh, Việt, Pháp, Hán) Trần Văn Chánh 2008-2009