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Oenanthe deserti · Family Muscicapidae
Oenanthe deserti
Family Muscicapidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Muscicapidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 85,864
- Countries and territories with records
- 103
About this species
This species has 85,864 occurrence records from 103 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (27%), the United Arab Emirates (12.9%), Morocco (10.4%), Oman (9.4%) and Israel (6.4%); together they account for 66.1% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 0.038% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Oenanthe deserti combines the genus name Oenanthe with the species epithet deserti. The Warbla app catalog lists 30 species of the genus Oenanthe; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Oenanthe oenanthe, Oenanthe familiaris and Oenanthe isabellina.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 316 species of the family Muscicapidae. This species ranks 41st among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Erithacus rubecula. Its record count is 73.4% of the family average (117,032). The family Muscicapidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.