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Australasian figbird
Sphecotheres vieilloti · Family Oriolidae
Sphecotheres vieilloti
Family Oriolidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Oriolidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 443,400
- Countries and territories with records
- 5

About this species
This species has 443,400 occurrence records from 5 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Australia accounts for 99.7% of the records; no other country or territory reaches 1%. In Australia, this species accounts for 0.4% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Sphecotheres vieilloti combines the genus name Sphecotheres with the species epithet vieilloti. The Warbla app catalog lists 3 species of the genus Sphecotheres; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Sphecotheres viridis and Sphecotheres hypoleucus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 35 species of the family Oriolidae. This species ranks 2nd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Oriolus oriolus. Its record count is 5.7 times the family average (78,258). The family Oriolidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.