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Heterophasia auricularis · Family Leiothrichidae

Heterophasia auricularis

Family Leiothrichidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Leiothrichidae
GBIF occurrence records
338,071
Countries and territories with records
4
White-eared sibia
Francesco Veronesi from Italy · White-eared Sibia - Taiwan S4E8153 (19547305835).jpg · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Francesco Veronesi from Italy · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 338,071 occurrence records from 4 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Taiwan accounts for 99.9% of the records; no other country or territory reaches 1%. In Taiwan, this species accounts for 1.6% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Heterophasia auricularis combines the genus name Heterophasia with the species epithet auricularis. The Warbla app catalog lists 7 species of the genus Heterophasia; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Heterophasia capistrata, Heterophasia pulchella and Heterophasia picaoides.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 119 species of the family Leiothrichidae. This species ranks 3rd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Argya striata. Its record count is 13.9 times the family average (24,267). The family Leiothrichidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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