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Prinia flaviventris · Family Cisticolidae

Prinia flaviventris

Family Cisticolidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Cisticolidae
GBIF occurrence records
305,069
Countries and territories with records
18
Yellow-bellied prinia
Imran Shah from Islamabad, Pakistan · Yellow-bellied Prinia (Prinia flaviventris) (43095962671).jpg · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Imran Shah from Islamabad, Pakistan · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 305,069 occurrence records from 18 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Taiwan (70.1%), Hong Kong (6.5%), Thailand (5.6%), Malaysia (5.2%) and India (4.6%); together they account for 91.9% of the total. In Taiwan, this species accounts for 1% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Prinia flaviventris combines the genus name Prinia with the species epithet flaviventris. 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 7th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Cisticola juncidis. Its record count is 6.3 times the family average (48,797). The family Cisticolidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Cisticolidae

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