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Rufous-capped babbler
Cyanoderma ruficeps · Family Timaliidae
Cyanoderma ruficeps
Family Timaliidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Timaliidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 214,266
- Countries and territories with records
- 14
About this species
This species has 214,266 occurrence records from 14 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Taiwan (83.9%), China (4.8%), India (4.8%) and Hong Kong (4.5%); together they account for 98% of the total. In Taiwan, this species accounts for 0.85% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Cyanoderma ruficeps combines the genus name Cyanoderma with the species epithet ruficeps. The Warbla app catalog lists 7 species of the genus Cyanoderma; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Cyanoderma pyrrhops, Cyanoderma chrysaeum and Cyanoderma erythropterum.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 56 species of the family Timaliidae. This species has the most records among them. Its record count is 11.5 times the family average (18,656). The family Timaliidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.