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Neochmia temporalis · Family Estrildidae

Neochmia temporalis

Family Estrildidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Estrildidae
GBIF occurrence records
560,537
Countries and territories with records
9
Red-browed finch
Frankzed from Melbourne, Australia · Neochmia temporalis -Coolart Wetlands, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia-8.jpg · CC BY 2.0 · Frankzed from Melbourne, Australia · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 560,537 occurrence records from 9 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Australia accounts for 99.9% of the records; no other country or territory reaches 1%. In Australia, this species accounts for 0.51% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Neochmia temporalis combines the genus name Neochmia with the species epithet temporalis. The Warbla app catalog lists one other species of the genus Neochmia: Neochmia phaeton.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 120 species of the family Estrildidae. This species ranks 2nd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Lonchura punctulata. Its record count is 12.7 times the family average (44,065). The family Estrildidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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