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Dark-necked tailorbird
Orthotomus atrogularis · Family Cisticolidae
Orthotomus atrogularis
Family Cisticolidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Cisticolidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 70,078
- Countries and territories with records
- 13

About this species
This species has 70,078 occurrence records from 13 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Thailand (42.9%), Malaysia (18.1%), Singapore (11.2%), Cambodia (9.6%) and Vietnam (6.7%); together they account for 88.5% of the total. In Thailand, this species accounts for 0.46% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Orthotomus atrogularis combines the genus name Orthotomus with the species epithet atrogularis. The Warbla app catalog lists 13 species of the genus Orthotomus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Orthotomus sutorius, Orthotomus ruficeps and Orthotomus sericeus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 154 species of the family Cisticolidae. This species ranks 18th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Cisticola juncidis. Its record count is 1.4 times the family average (48,797). The family Cisticolidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.