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Gymnorhina tibicen · Family Cracticidae

Gymnorhina tibicen

Family Cracticidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Cracticidae
GBIF occurrence records
2,930,051
Countries and territories with records
16
Australian Magpie
JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/) · Cracticus tibicen hypoleuca male domain.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.
Play song · Hullwarren · Magpie_Begging.ogg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Hullwarren · 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 2,930,051 occurrence records from 16 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Australia (95.1%) and New Zealand (4.9%); together they account for 99.9% of the total. In Australia, this species accounts for 2.5% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Gymnorhina tibicen combines the genus name Gymnorhina with the species epithet tibicen. It is the only species of the genus Gymnorhina in the Warbla app catalog.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 12 species of the family Cracticidae. This species has the most records among them. Its record count is 5.1 times the family average (570,170). The family Cracticidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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