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Black-naped monarch
Hypothymis azurea · Family Monarchidae
Hypothymis azurea
Family Monarchidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Monarchidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 346,424
- Countries and territories with records
- 24
About this species
This species has 346,424 occurrence records from 24 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Taiwan (47.9%), India (29.3%), Thailand (8.7%), Malaysia (2.9%) and the Philippines (2.6%); together they account for 91.3% of the total. In Taiwan, this species accounts for 0.79% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Hypothymis azurea combines the genus name Hypothymis with the species epithet azurea. The Warbla app catalog lists 4 species of the genus Hypothymis; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Hypothymis puella, Hypothymis helenae and Hypothymis coelestis.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 92 species of the family Monarchidae. This species ranks 2nd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Grallina cyanoleuca. Its record count is 8.5 times the family average (40,912). The family Monarchidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.