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Indian Robin

Copsychus fulicatus · Family Muscicapidae

Copsychus fulicatus

Family Muscicapidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Muscicapidae
GBIF occurrence records
493,176
Countries and territories with records
6
Indian Robin
PJeganathan, cropped & flipped left-right for taxobox use by MPF · Copsychus fulicatus fulicatus, male, Coimbatore district.jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · PJeganathan, cropped & flipped left-right for taxobox use by · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
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About this species

This species has 493,176 occurrence records from 6 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (96.3%) and Sri Lanka (3.4%); together they account for 99.6% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 0.77% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Copsychus fulicatus combines the genus name Copsychus with the species epithet fulicatus. The Warbla app catalog lists 13 species of the genus Copsychus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Copsychus saularis, Copsychus malabaricus and Copsychus albospecularis.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 316 species of the family Muscicapidae. This species ranks 13th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Erithacus rubecula. Its record count is 4.2 times the family average (117,032). The family Muscicapidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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