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Garden warbler
Sylvia borin · Family Sylviidae
Sylvia borin
Family Sylviidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Sylviidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 1,770,119
- Countries and territories with records
- 127

About this species
This species has 1,770,119 occurrence records from 127 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Sweden (26.3%), the Netherlands (12.6%), Spain (10.5%), Finland (10.2%) and France (8.5%); together they account for 68.2% of the total. In Sweden, this species accounts for 0.46% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Sylvia borin combines the genus name Sylvia with the species epithet borin. The Warbla app catalog lists 7 species of the genus Sylvia; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Sylvia atricapilla, Sylvia abyssinica and Sylvia atriceps.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 68 species of the family Sylviidae. This species ranks 3rd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Sylvia atricapilla. Its record count is 8.1 times the family average (217,780). The family Sylviidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.