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Orange-breasted bushshrike
Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus · Family Malaconotidae
Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus
Family Malaconotidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Malaconotidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 116,443
- Countries and territories with records
- 41
About this species
This species has 116,443 occurrence records from 41 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (65.8%), Kenya (6.4%), Zimbabwe (4.7%), Zambia (4.2%) and Tanzania (2.9%); together they account for 84% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.19% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus combines the genus name Chlorophoneus with the species epithet sulfureopectus. The Warbla app catalog lists 6 species of the genus Chlorophoneus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Chlorophoneus olivaceus, Chlorophoneus nigrifrons and Chlorophoneus bocagei.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 50 species of the family Malaconotidae. This species ranks 5th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Laniarius ferrugineus. Its record count is 3.6 times the family average (32,707). The family Malaconotidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.