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Saxicola rubicola · Family Muscicapidae
Saxicola rubicola
Family Muscicapidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Muscicapidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 2,425,707
- Countries and territories with records
- 97
About this species
This species has 2,425,707 occurrence records from 97 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the Netherlands (29.3%), Spain (18.9%), France (11.5%), the United Kingdom (10.1%) and Portugal (8.9%); together they account for 78.7% of the total. In the Netherlands, this species accounts for 1.1% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Saxicola rubicola combines the genus name Saxicola with the species epithet rubicola. The Warbla app catalog lists 14 species of the genus Saxicola; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Saxicola rubetra, Saxicola torquatus and Saxicola caprata.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 316 species of the family Muscicapidae. This species ranks 4th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Erithacus rubecula. Its record count is 20.7 times the family average (117,032). The family Muscicapidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.