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Oenanthe melanura · Family Muscicapidae
Oenanthe melanura
Family Muscicapidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Muscicapidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 40,745
- Countries and territories with records
- 20
About this species
This species has 40,745 occurrence records from 20 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Israel (69.8%), Oman (10.4%), Palestine (8.8%), Jordan (4.5%) and Saudi Arabia (3%); together they account for 96.5% of the total. In Israel, this species accounts for 0.43% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Oenanthe melanura combines the genus name Oenanthe with the species epithet melanura. 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 60th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Erithacus rubecula. Its record count is 34.8% of the family average (117,032). The family Muscicapidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.