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Saxicola torquatus · Family Muscicapidae
Saxicola torquatus
Family Muscicapidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Muscicapidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 404,292
- Countries and territories with records
- 119
About this species
This species has 404,292 occurrence records from 119 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (55.5%), Spain (13%), France (10%), Italy (5.1%) and Kenya (1.6%); together they account for 85.3% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.56% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Saxicola torquatus combines the genus name Saxicola with the species epithet torquatus. 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 caprata.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 316 species of the family Muscicapidae. This species ranks 14th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Erithacus rubecula. Its record count is 3.5 times the family average (117,032). The family Muscicapidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.