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Oenanthe familiaris · Family Muscicapidae
Oenanthe familiaris
Family Muscicapidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Muscicapidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 153,149
- Countries and territories with records
- 32
About this species
This species has 153,149 occurrence records from 32 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (85.1%), Namibia (8.9%) and Nigeria (1.2%); together they account for 95.1% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.33% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Oenanthe familiaris combines the genus name Oenanthe with the species epithet familiaris. 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 isabellina and Oenanthe hispanica.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 316 species of the family Muscicapidae. This species ranks 28th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Erithacus rubecula. Its record count is 1.3 times the family average (117,032). The family Muscicapidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.