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Puff-throated babbler
Pellorneum ruficeps · Family Pellorneidae
Pellorneum ruficeps
Family Pellorneidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Pellorneidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 136,788
- Countries and territories with records
- 13
About this species
This species has 136,788 occurrence records from 13 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (78%), Thailand (13.3%), Vietnam (1.6%), Cambodia (1.3%) and Nepal (1.3%); together they account for 95.6% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 0.17% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Pellorneum ruficeps combines the genus name Pellorneum with the species epithet ruficeps. The Warbla app catalog lists 15 species of the genus Pellorneum; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Pellorneum capistratum, Pellorneum tickelli and Pellorneum rostratum.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 73 species of the family Pellorneidae. This species has the most records among them. Its record count is 14.2 times the family average (9,618). The family Pellorneidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.