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Indian silverbill

Euodice malabarica · Family Estrildidae

Euodice malabarica

Family Estrildidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Estrildidae
GBIF occurrence records
264,090
Countries and territories with records
55
Indian silverbill
Dr. Raju Kasambe · Indian Silverbill Lonchura malabarica by Dr. Raju Kasambe DSCN2542 (2).jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Dr. Raju Kasambe · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 264,090 occurrence records from 55 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (76.9%), the United Arab Emirates (7.9%), France (4%), Taiwan (2.7%) and Israel (2.6%); together they account for 94.1% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 0.33% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Euodice malabarica combines the genus name Euodice with the species epithet malabarica. The Warbla app catalog lists one other species of the genus Euodice: Euodice cantans.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 120 species of the family Estrildidae. This species ranks 4th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Lonchura punctulata. Its record count is 6 times the family average (44,065). The family Estrildidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Estrildidae

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