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Dusky Woodswallow

Artamus cyanopterus · Family Artamidae

Artamus cyanopterus

Family Artamidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Artamidae
GBIF occurrence records
234,954
Countries and territories with records
5
Dusky Woodswallow
JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/) · Artamus cyanopterus.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.

About this species

This species has 234,954 occurrence records from 5 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 0.21% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Artamus cyanopterus combines the genus name Artamus with the species epithet cyanopterus. The Warbla app catalog lists 11 species of the genus Artamus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Artamus fuscus, Artamus cinereus and Artamus superciliosus.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 11 species of the family Artamidae. This species has the most records among them. Its record count is 3.2 times the family average (72,492). The family Artamidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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