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Prinia socialis · Family Cisticolidae
Prinia socialis
Family Cisticolidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Cisticolidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 628,968
- Countries and territories with records
- 6
About this species
This species has 628,968 occurrence records from 6 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (98.5%) and Sri Lanka (1.1%); together they account for 99.6% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 1% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Prinia socialis combines the genus name Prinia with the species epithet socialis. 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 subflava and Prinia flaviventris.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 154 species of the family Cisticolidae. This species ranks 4th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Cisticola juncidis. Its record count is 12.9 times the family average (48,797). The family Cisticolidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.