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Rufous Hornero

Furnarius rufus · Family Furnariidae

Furnarius rufus

Family Furnariidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Furnariidae
GBIF occurrence records
650,668
Countries and territories with records
8
Rufous Hornero
Dario Sanches from São Paulo, Brasil · Flickr - Dario Sanches - JOÃO-DE-BARRO (Furnarius rufus) (3).jpg · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Dario Sanches from São Paulo, Brasil · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Gabriele Magurno · Furnarius_rufus_-_Rufous_Hornero_XC298518.mp3 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Gabriele Magurno · 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 650,668 occurrence records from 8 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Argentina (44.8%), Brazil (41.3%), Uruguay (8.2%), Paraguay (3.3%) and Bolivia (2.4%); together they account for 99.9% of the total. In Argentina, this species accounts for 1.9% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Furnarius rufus combines the genus name Furnarius with the species epithet rufus. The Warbla app catalog lists 8 species of the genus Furnarius; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Furnarius leucopus, Furnarius cinnamomeus and Furnarius figulus.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 310 species of the family Furnariidae. This species has the most records among them. Its record count is 31.8 times the family average (20,483). The family Furnariidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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