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Indian Pied Myna
Gracupica contra · Family Sturnidae
Gracupica contra
Family Sturnidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Sturnidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 310,095
- Countries and territories with records
- 29
About this species
This species has 310,095 occurrence records from 29 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (76.6%), Thailand (12.5%), Bangladesh (5.2%), the United Arab Emirates (2.1%) and Nepal (2.1%); together they account for 98.4% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 0.39% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Gracupica contra combines the genus name Gracupica with the species epithet contra. The Warbla app catalog lists 3 species of the genus Gracupica; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Gracupica nigricollis and Gracupica floweri.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 110 species of the family Sturnidae. This species ranks 7th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Sturnus vulgaris. Its record count is close to the family average (340,966). The family Sturnidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.