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Bar-winged Flycatcher Shrike

Hemipus picatus · Family Tephrodornithidae

Hemipus picatus

Family Tephrodornithidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Tephrodornithidae
GBIF occurrence records
66,676
Countries and territories with records
14
Bar-winged Flycatcher Shrike
Thimindu Goonatillake from Colombo, Sri Lanka · Hemipus picatus -Knuckles Forest Reserve, Sri Lanka-8.jpg · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Thimindu Goonatillake from Colombo, Sri Lanka · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Shyamal · Pied_flycatcher_shrike.ogg · CC0 · Shyamal · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 66,676 occurrence records from 14 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (48.4%), Thailand (19%), Sri Lanka (8%), Malaysia (7.4%) and Vietnam (5.4%); together they account for 88.2% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 0.052% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Hemipus picatus combines the genus name Hemipus with the species epithet picatus. The Warbla app catalog lists one other species of the genus Hemipus: Hemipus hirundinaceus.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 8 species of the family Tephrodornithidae. This species ranks 2nd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Tephrodornis pondicerianus. Its record count is 2.2 times the family average (29,765). The family Tephrodornithidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Tephrodornithidae

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