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Ortygornis sephaena
Ortygornis sephaena · Family Phasianidae
Family Phasianidae
- Order
- Galliformes
- Family
- Phasianidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 128,716
- Countries and territories with records
- 20
About this species
This species has 128,716 occurrence records from 20 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (66.6%), Kenya (12.6%), Tanzania (4.6%), Botswana (4.1%) and Uganda (3.8%); together they account for 91.7% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.21% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Ortygornis sephaena combines the genus name Ortygornis with the species epithet sephaena. The Warbla app catalog lists 3 species of the genus Ortygornis; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Ortygornis pondicerianus and Ortygornis gularis.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 164 species of the family Phasianidae. This species ranks 17th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Phasianus colchicus. Its record count is 1.5 times the family average (83,905). The family Phasianidae belongs to the order Galliformes, which has 278 species in the Warbla app catalog.