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Delicate prinia
Prinia lepida · Family Cisticolidae
Prinia lepida
Family Cisticolidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Cisticolidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 57,887
- Countries and territories with records
- 14
About this species
This species has 57,887 occurrence records from 14 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United Arab Emirates (52%), India (18.4%), Türkiye (13%), Kuwait (4.1%) and Oman (4.1%); together they account for 91.5% of the total. In the United Arab Emirates, this species accounts for 1.6% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Prinia lepida combines the genus name Prinia with the species epithet lepida. 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 22nd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Cisticola juncidis. Its record count is 1.2 times the family average (48,797). The family Cisticolidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.