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Black-headed grosbeak
Pheucticus melanocephalus · Family Cardinalidae
Pheucticus melanocephalus
Family Cardinalidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Cardinalidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 1,546,803
- Countries and territories with records
- 11
About this species
This species has 1,546,803 occurrence records from 11 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (90%), Canada (6%) and Mexico (4%); together they account for 99.9% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.12% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Pheucticus melanocephalus combines the genus name Pheucticus with the species epithet melanocephalus. The Warbla app catalog lists 6 species of the genus Pheucticus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Pheucticus ludovicianus, Pheucticus chrysogaster and Pheucticus aureoventris.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 47 species of the family Cardinalidae. This species ranks 6th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Cardinalis cardinalis. Its record count is 1.6 times the family average (967,279). The family Cardinalidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.