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Ashy tailorbird
Orthotomus ruficeps · Family Cisticolidae
Orthotomus ruficeps
Family Cisticolidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Cisticolidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 42,191
- Countries and territories with records
- 10
About this species
This species has 42,191 occurrence records from 10 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Malaysia (48%), Singapore (37.5%), Indonesia (6.6%), Thailand (4%) and Vietnam (2.1%); together they account for 98.2% of the total. In Malaysia, this species accounts for 0.68% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Orthotomus ruficeps combines the genus name Orthotomus with the species epithet ruficeps. 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 atrogularis and Orthotomus sericeus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 154 species of the family Cisticolidae. This species ranks 24th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Cisticola juncidis. Its record count is 86.5% of the family average (48,797). The family Cisticolidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.