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Striated grassbird
Megalurus palustris · Family Locustellidae
Megalurus palustris
Family Locustellidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Locustellidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 46,232
- Countries and territories with records
- 14
About this species
This species has 46,232 occurrence records from 14 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (41.1%), the Philippines (32.3%), Cambodia (5%), Thailand (4.4%) and Indonesia (4%); together they account for 86.8% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 0.031% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Megalurus palustris combines the genus name Megalurus with the species epithet palustris. It is the only species of the genus Megalurus in the Warbla app catalog.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 62 species of the family Locustellidae. This species ranks 9th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Locustella naevia. Its record count is 2 times the family average (23,118). The family Locustellidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.