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Icterine warbler
Hippolais icterina · Family Acrocephalidae
Hippolais icterina
Family Acrocephalidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Acrocephalidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 528,673
- Countries and territories with records
- 102
About this species
This species has 528,673 occurrence records from 102 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Sweden (43.5%), Denmark (14.1%), the Netherlands (8.9%), Norway (8.3%) and Belgium (4.6%); together they account for 79.4% of the total. In Sweden, this species accounts for 0.23% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Hippolais icterina combines the genus name Hippolais with the species epithet icterina. The Warbla app catalog lists 4 species of the genus Hippolais; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Hippolais polyglotta, Hippolais olivetorum and Hippolais languida.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 51 species of the family Acrocephalidae. This species ranks 4th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Acrocephalus scirpaceus. Its record count is 3.2 times the family average (166,212). The family Acrocephalidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.