Warbla · Library
Golden-headed Cisticola
Cisticola exilis · Family Cisticolidae
Cisticola exilis
Family Cisticolidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Cisticolidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 308,816
- Countries and territories with records
- 22
About this species
This species has 308,816 occurrence records from 22 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Australia (85.1%), Taiwan (8%), Indonesia (1.4%), Thailand (1.3%) and the Philippines (1.2%); together they account for 96.9% of the total. In Australia, this species accounts for 0.24% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Cisticola exilis combines the genus name Cisticola with the species epithet exilis. The Warbla app catalog lists 49 species of the genus Cisticola; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Cisticola juncidis, Cisticola chiniana and Cisticola fulvicapilla.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 154 species of the family Cisticolidae. This species ranks 6th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Cisticola juncidis. Its record count is 6.3 times the family average (48,797). The family Cisticolidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.