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Blue Whistling Thrush
Myophonus caeruleus · Family Muscicapidae
Myophonus caeruleus
Family Muscicapidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Muscicapidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 177,472
- Countries and territories with records
- 27
About this species
This species has 177,472 occurrence records from 27 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (56.8%), Thailand (8.4%), Nepal (6.9%), Hong Kong (6.7%) and Bhutan (6.5%); together they account for 85.3% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 0.16% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Myophonus caeruleus combines the genus name Myophonus with the species epithet caeruleus. The Warbla app catalog lists 9 species of the genus Myophonus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Myophonus horsfieldii, Myophonus insularis and Myophonus borneensis.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 316 species of the family Muscicapidae. This species ranks 25th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Erithacus rubecula. Its record count is 1.5 times the family average (117,032). The family Muscicapidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.