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Indian scimitar babbler
Pomatorhinus horsfieldii · Family Timaliidae
Pomatorhinus horsfieldii
Family Timaliidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Timaliidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 73,781
- Countries and territories with records
- 5
About this species
This species has 73,781 occurrence records from 5 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). India accounts for 99.9% of the records; no other country or territory reaches 1%. In India, this species accounts for 0.12% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Pomatorhinus horsfieldii combines the genus name Pomatorhinus with the species epithet horsfieldii. The Warbla app catalog lists 10 species of the genus Pomatorhinus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Pomatorhinus musicus, Pomatorhinus ruficollis and Pomatorhinus schisticeps.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 56 species of the family Timaliidae. This species ranks 4th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Cyanoderma ruficeps. Its record count is 4 times the family average (18,656). The family Timaliidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.