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Tawny-flanked Prinia
Prinia subflava · Family Cisticolidae
Prinia subflava
Family Cisticolidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Cisticolidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 310,480
- Countries and territories with records
- 53
About this species
This species has 310,480 occurrence records from 53 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (63.8%), Kenya (6.8%), Uganda (3.9%), Nigeria (3.5%) and Zimbabwe (3.4%); together they account for 81.4% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.5% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Prinia subflava combines the genus name Prinia with the species epithet subflava. 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 flaviventris.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 154 species of the family Cisticolidae. This species ranks 5th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Cisticola juncidis. Its record count is 6.4 times the family average (48,797). The family Cisticolidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.