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Grallina cyanoleuca · Family Monarchidae

Grallina cyanoleuca

Family Monarchidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Monarchidae
GBIF occurrence records
2,077,286
Countries and territories with records
9
Magpie-lark
JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/) · Grallina cyanoleuca Female.jpg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 2,077,286 occurrence records from 9 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Australia accounts for 99.9% of the records; no other country or territory reaches 1%. In Australia, this species accounts for 1.9% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Grallina cyanoleuca combines the genus name Grallina with the species epithet cyanoleuca. The Warbla app catalog lists one other species of the genus Grallina: Grallina bruijnii.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 92 species of the family Monarchidae. This species has the most records among them. Its record count is 50.8 times the family average (40,912). The family Monarchidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Monarchidae

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