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Black Redstart
Phoenicurus ochruros · Family Muscicapidae
Phoenicurus ochruros
Family Muscicapidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Muscicapidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 2,502,113
- Countries and territories with records
- 109
About this species
This species has 2,502,113 occurrence records from 109 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from France (23.7%), Spain (21.2%), Germany (10.5%), Portugal (7.4%) and the Netherlands (4.6%); together they account for 67.3% of the total. In France, this species accounts for 1% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Phoenicurus ochruros combines the genus name Phoenicurus with the species epithet ochruros. The Warbla app catalog lists 14 species of the genus Phoenicurus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Phoenicurus phoenicurus, Phoenicurus auroreus and Phoenicurus fuliginosus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 316 species of the family Muscicapidae. This species ranks 3rd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Erithacus rubecula. Its record count is 21.4 times the family average (117,032). The family Muscicapidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.