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Phylloscopus nitidus · Family Phylloscopidae

Phylloscopus nitidus

Family Phylloscopidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Phylloscopidae
GBIF occurrence records
97,944
Countries and territories with records
40
Green Warbler
This image is created by user Wouter van der Ham at Observation.org, a global biodiversity recording project. · Phylloscopus nitidus (Phylloscopidae) (Green Warbler), Chorokhi Delta, Georgia.jpg · CC BY 3.0 · This image is created by user Wouter van der Ham at Observat · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Mike Prince · Phylloscopus_nitidus_-_Green_Warbler_XC360499.mp3 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Mike Prince · 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 97,944 occurrence records from 40 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (85.1%), Sri Lanka (6.7%), Georgia (3.1%) and Russia (1.6%); together they account for 96.5% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 0.14% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Phylloscopus nitidus combines the genus name Phylloscopus with the species epithet nitidus. The Warbla app catalog lists 80 species of the genus Phylloscopus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Phylloscopus collybita, Phylloscopus trochilus and Phylloscopus inornatus.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 79 species of the family Phylloscopidae. This species ranks 9th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Phylloscopus collybita. Its record count is 53.3% of the family average (183,822). The family Phylloscopidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Phylloscopidae

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