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Black-backed puffback
Dryoscopus cubla · Family Malaconotidae
Dryoscopus cubla
Family Malaconotidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Malaconotidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 238,953
- Countries and territories with records
- 24
About this species
This species has 238,953 occurrence records from 24 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (67.1%), Kenya (8%), Zimbabwe (6.1%), Zambia (4.5%) and Tanzania (3.7%); together they account for 89.4% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.4% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Dryoscopus cubla combines the genus name Dryoscopus with the species epithet cubla. The Warbla app catalog lists 6 species of the genus Dryoscopus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Dryoscopus gambensis, Dryoscopus angolensis and Dryoscopus sabini.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 50 species of the family Malaconotidae. This species ranks 2nd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Laniarius ferrugineus. Its record count is 7.3 times the family average (32,707). The family Malaconotidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.