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Daurian Redstart

Phoenicurus auroreus · Family Muscicapidae

Phoenicurus auroreus

Family Muscicapidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Muscicapidae
GBIF occurrence records
252,323
Countries and territories with records
25
Daurian Redstart
Laitche · Daurian redstart (female) in Sakai, Osaka, February 2016 III.jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Laitche · 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 252,323 occurrence records from 25 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Taiwan (40.7%), South Korea (20.2%), China (17%), Japan (12.3%) and Hong Kong (5.3%); together they account for 95.5% of the total. In Taiwan, this species accounts for 0.49% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Phoenicurus auroreus combines the genus name Phoenicurus with the species epithet auroreus. The Warbla app catalog lists 14 species of the genus Phoenicurus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Phoenicurus ochruros, Phoenicurus phoenicurus and Phoenicurus fuliginosus.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 316 species of the family Muscicapidae. This species ranks 17th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Erithacus rubecula. Its record count is 2.2 times the family average (117,032). The family Muscicapidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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