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Malabar Whistling Thrush
Myophonus horsfieldii · Family Muscicapidae
Myophonus horsfieldii
Family Muscicapidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Muscicapidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 78,435
- Countries and territories with records
- 4
About this species
This species has 78,435 occurrence records from 4 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). India accounts for 99.9% of the records; no other country or territory reaches 1%. In India, this species accounts for 0.13% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Myophonus horsfieldii combines the genus name Myophonus with the species epithet horsfieldii. The Warbla app catalog lists 9 species of the genus Myophonus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Myophonus caeruleus, Myophonus insularis and Myophonus borneensis.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 316 species of the family Muscicapidae. This species ranks 44th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Erithacus rubecula. Its record count is 67% of the family average (117,032). The family Muscicapidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.