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Copsychus saularis · Family Muscicapidae
Copsychus saularis
Family Muscicapidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Muscicapidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 1,187,949
- Countries and territories with records
- 33
About this species
This species has 1,187,949 occurrence records from 33 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (64.9%), Thailand (8.7%), Taiwan (7.2%), China (3.8%) and Hong Kong (3.5%); together they account for 88.1% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 1.3% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Copsychus saularis combines the genus name Copsychus with the species epithet saularis. The Warbla app catalog lists 13 species of the genus Copsychus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Copsychus fulicatus, Copsychus malabaricus and Copsychus albospecularis.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 316 species of the family Muscicapidae. This species ranks 9th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Erithacus rubecula. Its record count is 10.2 times the family average (117,032). The family Muscicapidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.