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Black-collared Starling
Gracupica nigricollis · Family Sturnidae
Gracupica nigricollis
Family Sturnidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Sturnidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 181,627
- Countries and territories with records
- 22
About this species
This species has 181,627 occurrence records from 22 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Taiwan (50.5%), Hong Kong (18.7%), Thailand (16.8%), China (6.8%) and Cambodia (4.5%); together they account for 97.3% of the total. In Taiwan, this species accounts for 0.43% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Gracupica nigricollis combines the genus name Gracupica with the species epithet nigricollis. The Warbla app catalog lists 3 species of the genus Gracupica; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Gracupica contra and Gracupica floweri.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 110 species of the family Sturnidae. This species ranks 11th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Sturnus vulgaris. Its record count is 53.3% of the family average (340,966). The family Sturnidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.