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Thrush Nightingale
Luscinia luscinia · Family Muscicapidae
Luscinia luscinia
Family Muscicapidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Muscicapidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 545,536
- Countries and territories with records
- 91
About this species
This species has 545,536 occurrence records from 91 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Sweden (55.9%), Denmark (15.7%), Finland (6.8%), Russia (5.1%) and Norway (4.4%); together they account for 87.9% of the total. In Sweden, this species accounts for 0.3% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Luscinia luscinia combines the genus name Luscinia with the species epithet luscinia. The Warbla app catalog lists 4 species of the genus Luscinia; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Luscinia megarhynchos, Luscinia svecica and Luscinia phaenicuroides.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 316 species of the family Muscicapidae. This species ranks 12th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Erithacus rubecula. Its record count is 4.7 times the family average (117,032). The family Muscicapidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.