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Yellow-rumped thornbill

Acanthiza chrysorrhoa · Family Acanthizidae

Acanthiza chrysorrhoa

Family Acanthizidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Acanthizidae
GBIF occurrence records
502,047
Countries and territories with records
2
Yellow-rumped thornbill
Duncan McCaskill · Acanthiza chrysorrhoa -Canberra, Australia-8 (1).jpg · CC BY 3.0 · Duncan McCaskill · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 502,047 occurrence records from 2 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Australia accounts for 99.9% of the records; no other country or territory reaches 1%. In Australia, this species accounts for 0.46% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Acanthiza chrysorrhoa combines the genus name Acanthiza with the species epithet chrysorrhoa. The Warbla app catalog lists 14 species of the genus Acanthiza; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Acanthiza pusilla, Acanthiza lineata and Acanthiza nana.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 66 species of the family Acanthizidae. This species ranks 3rd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Acanthiza pusilla. Its record count is 6.7 times the family average (75,104). The family Acanthizidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Acanthizidae

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