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Dessonornis caffer · Family Muscicapidae
Dessonornis caffer
Family Muscicapidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Muscicapidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 90,410
- Countries and territories with records
- 14
About this species
This species has 90,410 occurrence records from 14 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (82.5%), Kenya (10.4%), Tanzania (3.5%) and Rwanda (1.2%); together they account for 97.6% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.19% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Dessonornis caffer combines the genus name Dessonornis with the species epithet caffer. The Warbla app catalog lists 4 species of the genus Dessonornis; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Dessonornis humeralis, Dessonornis archeri and Dessonornis anomalus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 316 species of the family Muscicapidae. This species ranks 40th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Erithacus rubecula. Its record count is 77.3% of the family average (117,032). The family Muscicapidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.