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Black-chested Prinia
Prinia flavicans · Family Cisticolidae
Prinia flavicans
Family Cisticolidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Cisticolidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 130,407
- Countries and territories with records
- 8
About this species
This species has 130,407 occurrence records from 8 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (83.7%), Namibia (13.4%) and Botswana (2.5%); together they account for 99.6% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.27% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Prinia flavicans combines the genus name Prinia with the species epithet flavicans. The Warbla app catalog lists 28 species of the genus Prinia; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Prinia inornata, Prinia socialis and Prinia subflava.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 154 species of the family Cisticolidae. This species ranks 15th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Cisticola juncidis. Its record count is 2.7 times the family average (48,797). The family Cisticolidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.