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Tropical gnatcatcher
Polioptila plumbea · Family Polioptilidae
Polioptila plumbea
Family Polioptilidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Polioptilidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 210,461
- Countries and territories with records
- 17
About this species
This species has 210,461 occurrence records from 17 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Costa Rica (26.5%), Colombia (15.2%), Panama (12.9%), Venezuela (10.2%) and Ecuador (9.1%); together they account for 73.8% of the total. In Costa Rica, this species accounts for 0.21% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Polioptila plumbea combines the genus name Polioptila with the species epithet plumbea. The Warbla app catalog lists 17 species of the genus Polioptila; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Polioptila caerulea, Polioptila melanura and Polioptila dumicola.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 21 species of the family Polioptilidae. This species ranks 3rd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Polioptila caerulea. Its record count is 67.2% of the family average (313,189). The family Polioptilidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.