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Taiwan Whistling Thrush
Myophonus insularis · Family Muscicapidae
Myophonus insularis
Family Muscicapidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Muscicapidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 55,746
- Countries and territories with records
- 3
About this species
This species has 55,746 occurrence records from 3 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Taiwan accounts for 99.9% of the records; no other country or territory reaches 1%. In Taiwan, this species accounts for 0.26% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Myophonus insularis combines the genus name Myophonus with the species epithet insularis. 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 horsfieldii and Myophonus borneensis.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 316 species of the family Muscicapidae. This species ranks 54th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Erithacus rubecula. Its record count is 47.6% of the family average (117,032). The family Muscicapidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.