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Great Crested Flycatcher
Myiarchus crinitus · Family Tyrannidae
Myiarchus crinitus
Family Tyrannidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Tyrannidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 3,728,271
- Countries and territories with records
- 21
About this species
This species has 3,728,271 occurrence records from 21 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (86.4%), Canada (10.7%) and Costa Rica (1%); together they account for 98.2% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.29% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Myiarchus crinitus combines the genus name Myiarchus with the species epithet crinitus. The Warbla app catalog lists 22 species of the genus Myiarchus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Myiarchus cinerascens, Myiarchus tuberculifer and Myiarchus tyrannulus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 423 species of the family Tyrannidae. This species ranks 5th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Sayornis phoebe. Its record count is 27.1 times the family average (137,762). The family Tyrannidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.