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Saxicola rubetra · Family Muscicapidae
Saxicola rubetra
Family Muscicapidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Muscicapidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 1,106,630
- Countries and territories with records
- 122
About this species
This species has 1,106,630 occurrence records from 122 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Sweden (31.4%), Norway (9.1%), Finland (8%), France (7.7%) and Denmark (6.5%); together they account for 62.7% of the total. In Sweden, this species accounts for 0.34% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Saxicola rubetra combines the genus name Saxicola with the species epithet rubetra. 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 torquatus and Saxicola caprata.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 316 species of the family Muscicapidae. This species ranks 10th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Erithacus rubecula. Its record count is 9.5 times the family average (117,032). The family Muscicapidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.