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Saxicola caprata · Family Muscicapidae

Saxicola caprata

Family Muscicapidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Muscicapidae
GBIF occurrence records
403,161
Countries and territories with records
42
Pied Bush Chat
Charles J. Sharp · Pied bushchat (Saxicola caprata bicolor) female.jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · L. Shyamal · SaxicolaCaprataCall.ogg · CC BY-SA 2.5 · L. Shyamal · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 403,161 occurrence records from 42 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (81.6%), Thailand (4.9%), Nepal (2.9%), Cambodia (2.8%) and the Philippines (1.8%); together they account for 94.1% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 0.53% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Saxicola caprata combines the genus name Saxicola with the species epithet caprata. The Warbla app catalog lists 14 species of the genus Saxicola; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Saxicola rubicola, Saxicola rubetra and Saxicola torquatus.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 316 species of the family Muscicapidae. This species ranks 15th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Erithacus rubecula. Its record count is 3.4 times the family average (117,032). The family Muscicapidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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