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Brown-flanked bush warbler
Horornis fortipes · Family Cettiidae
Horornis fortipes
Family Cettiidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Cettiidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 62,424
- Countries and territories with records
- 15
About this species
This species has 62,424 occurrence records from 15 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Taiwan (47.3%), China (22.5%), India (21.2%), Hong Kong (4.3%) and Bhutan (2.7%); together they account for 98.1% of the total. In Taiwan, this species accounts for 0.14% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Horornis fortipes combines the genus name Horornis with the species epithet fortipes. The Warbla app catalog lists 12 species of the genus Horornis; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Horornis diphone, Horornis canturians and Horornis acanthizoides.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 33 species of the family Cettiidae. This species ranks 4th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Cettia cetti. Its record count is close to the family average (62,599). The family Cettiidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.