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Rufous-tailed scrub robin
Cercotrichas galactotes · Family Muscicapidae
Cercotrichas galactotes
Family Muscicapidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Muscicapidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 54,343
- Countries and territories with records
- 107
About this species
This species has 54,343 occurrence records from 107 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Spain (22%), Israel (20.3%), Türkiye (7.5%), the United Arab Emirates (6.7%) and Morocco (4%); together they account for 60.6% of the total. In Spain, this species accounts for 0.023% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Cercotrichas galactotes combines the genus name Cercotrichas with the species epithet galactotes. The Warbla app catalog lists 5 species of the genus Cercotrichas; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Cercotrichas leucophrys, Cercotrichas paena and Cercotrichas podobe.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 316 species of the family Muscicapidae. This species ranks 55th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Erithacus rubecula. Its record count is 46.4% of the family average (117,032). The family Muscicapidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.