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Grey-headed canary-flycatcher

Culicicapa ceylonensis · Family Stenostiridae

Culicicapa ceylonensis

Family Stenostiridae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Stenostiridae
GBIF occurrence records
162,100
Countries and territories with records
19
Grey-headed canary-flycatcher
Tisha Mukherjee · Grey-headed Canary-Flycatcher in Sillery Gaon September 2025 by Tisha Mukherjee 01.jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Tisha Mukherjee · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · L. Shyamal & Arun Nandavar · Culicicapa_call.ogg · CC BY-SA 2.5 · L. Shyamal & Arun Nandavar · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 162,100 occurrence records from 19 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (56.5%), Thailand (14.7%), Nepal (6.4%), China (4.4%) and Malaysia (3.7%); together they account for 85.7% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 0.15% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Culicicapa ceylonensis combines the genus name Culicicapa with the species epithet ceylonensis. The Warbla app catalog lists one other species of the genus Culicicapa: Culicicapa helianthea.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 8 species of the family Stenostiridae. This species has the most records among them. Its record count is 5.8 times the family average (27,912). The family Stenostiridae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the order Passeriformes

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