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Yellow-throated Sparrow

Gymnoris xanthocollis · Family Passeridae

Gymnoris xanthocollis

Family Passeridae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Passeridae
GBIF occurrence records
109,022
Countries and territories with records
29
Yellow-throated Sparrow
J.M.Garg · Chestnut-shouldered Petronia (Petronia xanthocollis) at Bharatpur I IMG 5262.jpg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · J.M.Garg · 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 109,022 occurrence records from 29 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). India accounts for 96.6% of the records; no other country or territory reaches 1%. In India, this species accounts for 0.17% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Gymnoris xanthocollis combines the genus name Gymnoris with the species epithet xanthocollis. The Warbla app catalog lists 4 species of the genus Gymnoris; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Gymnoris superciliaris, Gymnoris pyrgita and Gymnoris dentata.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 47 species of the family Passeridae. This species ranks 9th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Passer domesticus. Its record count is 15.9% of the family average (687,513). The family Passeridae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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