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Golden-crowned warbler

Basileuterus culicivorus · Family Parulidae

Basileuterus culicivorus

Family Parulidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Parulidae
GBIF occurrence records
302,242
Countries and territories with records
19
Golden-crowned warbler
Dario Sanches from SÃO PAULO, BRASIL · Flickr - Dario Sanches - PULA-PULA (Basileuterus culicivorus) (3).jpg · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Dario Sanches from SÃO PAULO, BRASIL · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 302,242 occurrence records from 19 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Brazil (43.1%), Argentina (12.8%), Costa Rica (11.9%), Colombia (7.9%) and Mexico (7.6%); together they account for 83.4% of the total. In Brazil, this species accounts for 0.55% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Basileuterus culicivorus combines the genus name Basileuterus with the species epithet culicivorus. The Warbla app catalog lists 12 species of the genus Basileuterus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Basileuterus rufifrons, Basileuterus delattrii and Basileuterus tristriatus.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 117 species of the family Parulidae. This species ranks 39th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Setophaga coronata. Its record count is 43% of the family average (702,186). The family Parulidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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