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Pipilo maculatus · Family Passerellidae
Pipilo maculatus
Family Passerellidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Passerellidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 4,823,925
- Countries and territories with records
- 7
About this species
This species has 4,823,925 occurrence records from 7 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (84.5%) and Canada (14.6%); together they account for 99.1% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.37% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Pipilo maculatus combines the genus name Pipilo with the species epithet maculatus. The Warbla app catalog lists 4 species of the genus Pipilo; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Pipilo erythrophthalmus, Pipilo chlorurus and Pipilo ocai.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 129 species of the family Passerellidae. This species ranks 7th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Melospiza melodia. Its record count is 5.9 times the family average (810,852). The family Passerellidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.