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Saxicola maurus · Family Muscicapidae
Saxicola maurus
Family Muscicapidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Muscicapidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 205,083
- Countries and territories with records
- 88
About this species
This species has 205,083 occurrence records from 88 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (65.9%), Russia (7.4%), Nepal (4.8%), Israel (2.8%) and Sweden (2.2%); together they account for 83.2% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 0.22% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Saxicola maurus combines the genus name Saxicola with the species epithet maurus. 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 20th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Erithacus rubecula. Its record count is 1.8 times the family average (117,032). The family Muscicapidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.