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Common Nightingale
Luscinia megarhynchos · Family Muscicapidae
Luscinia megarhynchos
Family Muscicapidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Muscicapidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 1,213,160
- Countries and territories with records
- 117
About this species
This species has 1,213,160 occurrence records from 117 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from France (34.5%), Spain (26.9%), the Netherlands (9.6%), Germany (6.2%) and Portugal (5.3%); together they account for 82.5% of the total. In France, this species accounts for 0.71% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Luscinia megarhynchos combines the genus name Luscinia with the species epithet megarhynchos. The Warbla app catalog lists 4 species of the genus Luscinia; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Luscinia svecica, Luscinia luscinia and Luscinia phaenicuroides.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 316 species of the family Muscicapidae. This species ranks 8th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Erithacus rubecula. Its record count is 10.4 times the family average (117,032). The family Muscicapidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.