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Acanthiza pusilla · Family Acanthizidae

Acanthiza pusilla

Family Acanthizidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Acanthizidae
GBIF occurrence records
822,922
Countries and territories with records
1
Brown Thornbill
JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/) · Acanthiza pusilla - Austin's Ferry.jpg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
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About this species

This species has 822,922 occurrence records, all from one country or territory (GBIF, 21 October 2026). In Australia, this species accounts for 0.75% of all bird records in GBIF.

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

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 66 species of the family Acanthizidae. This species has the most records among them. Its record count is 11 times the family average (75,104). The family Acanthizidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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