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Common Tailorbird
Orthotomus sutorius · Family Cisticolidae
Orthotomus sutorius
Family Cisticolidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Cisticolidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 1,169,108
- Countries and territories with records
- 21
About this species
This species has 1,169,108 occurrence records from 21 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (78.6%), Thailand (5.1%), Sri Lanka (3.6%), Hong Kong (2.8%) and Nepal (1.9%); together they account for 92% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 1.5% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Orthotomus sutorius combines the genus name Orthotomus with the species epithet sutorius. The Warbla app catalog lists 13 species of the genus Orthotomus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Orthotomus atrogularis, Orthotomus ruficeps and Orthotomus sericeus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 154 species of the family Cisticolidae. This species ranks 2nd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Cisticola juncidis. Its record count is 24 times the family average (48,797). The family Cisticolidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.