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Asian Glossy Starling
Aplonis panayensis · Family Sturnidae
Aplonis panayensis
Family Sturnidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Sturnidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 145,641
- Countries and territories with records
- 26
About this species
This species has 145,641 occurrence records from 26 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Singapore (27.1%), Malaysia (26.1%), Taiwan (24.7%), the Philippines (13.3%) and India (4.3%); together they account for 95.6% of the total. In Singapore, this species accounts for 2.4% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Aplonis panayensis combines the genus name Aplonis with the species epithet panayensis. The Warbla app catalog lists 18 species of the genus Aplonis; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Aplonis metallica, Aplonis opaca and Aplonis cantoroides.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 110 species of the family Sturnidae. This species ranks 14th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Sturnus vulgaris. Its record count is 42.7% of the family average (340,966). The family Sturnidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.