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Pericrocotus cinnamomeus · Family Campephagidae

Pericrocotus cinnamomeus

Family Campephagidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Campephagidae
GBIF occurrence records
176,629
Countries and territories with records
15
Small Minivet
Tisha Mukherjee · Small Minivet in Saswad August 2025 by Tisha Mukherjee 01.jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Tisha Mukherjee · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 176,629 occurrence records from 15 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (85.5%), Sri Lanka (4.7%), Thailand (4%), Indonesia (2%) and Cambodia (1.9%); together they account for 98% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 0.25% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Pericrocotus cinnamomeus combines the genus name Pericrocotus with the species epithet cinnamomeus. The Warbla app catalog lists 15 species of the genus Pericrocotus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Pericrocotus solaris, Pericrocotus speciosus and Pericrocotus flammeus.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 89 species of the family Campephagidae. This species ranks 2nd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Coracina novaehollandiae. Its record count is 5.9 times the family average (29,881). The family Campephagidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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