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Australian golden whistler
Pachycephala pectoralis · Family Pachycephalidae
Pachycephala pectoralis
Family Pachycephalidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Pachycephalidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 652,133
- Countries and territories with records
- 14
About this species
This species has 652,133 occurrence records from 14 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Australia accounts for 99.3% of the records; no other country or territory reaches 1%. In Australia, this species accounts for 0.59% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Pachycephala pectoralis combines the genus name Pachycephala with the species epithet pectoralis. The Warbla app catalog lists 44 species of the genus Pachycephala; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Pachycephala rufiventris, Pachycephala olivacea and Pachycephala simplex.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 63 species of the family Pachycephalidae. This species ranks 3rd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Colluricincla harmonica. Its record count is 14.3 times the family average (45,721). The family Pachycephalidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.