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Sayornis nigricans · Family Tyrannidae
Sayornis nigricans
Family Tyrannidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Tyrannidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 3,774,263
- Countries and territories with records
- 18
About this species
This species has 3,774,263 occurrence records from 18 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (91.5%), Colombia (2.5%), Mexico (2.2%), Costa Rica (1.3%) and Ecuador (1.1%); together they account for 98.4% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.31% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Sayornis nigricans combines the genus name Sayornis with the species epithet nigricans. The Warbla app catalog lists 3 species of the genus Sayornis; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Sayornis phoebe and Sayornis saya.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 423 species of the family Tyrannidae. This species ranks 4th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Sayornis phoebe. Its record count is 27.4 times the family average (137,762). The family Tyrannidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.