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American Bushtit

Psaltriparus minimus · Family Aegithalidae

Psaltriparus minimus

Family Aegithalidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Aegithalidae
GBIF occurrence records
2,556,105
Countries and territories with records
6
American Bushtit
Alex Critch · Psaltriparus minimus -Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada -male-8.jpg · CC BY 2.0 · Alex Critch · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Jonathon Jongsma · Psaltriparus_minimus_-_American_Bushtit_-_XC109666.ogg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Jonathon Jongsma · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 2,556,105 occurrence records from 6 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (89.8%), Canada (6.8%) and Mexico (2.9%); together they account for 99.5% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.21% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Psaltriparus minimus combines the genus name Psaltriparus with the species epithet minimus. It is the only species of the genus Psaltriparus in the Warbla app catalog.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 11 species of the family Aegithalidae. This species ranks 2nd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Aegithalos caudatus. Its record count is 4.7 times the family average (543,441). The family Aegithalidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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