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Northern waterthrush
Parkesia noveboracensis · Family Parulidae
Parkesia noveboracensis
Family Parulidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Parulidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 1,444,117
- Countries and territories with records
- 59
About this species
This species has 1,444,117 occurrence records from 59 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (58.9%), Canada (19.9%), Costa Rica (4.2%), Mexico (3.4%) and Belize (2.9%); together they account for 89.3% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.076% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Parkesia noveboracensis combines the genus name Parkesia with the species epithet noveboracensis. The Warbla app catalog lists one other species of the genus Parkesia: Parkesia motacilla.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 117 species of the family Parulidae. This species ranks 17th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Setophaga coronata. Its record count is 2.1 times the family average (702,186). The family Parulidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.