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Brown-crowned Tchagra
Tchagra australis · Family Malaconotidae
Tchagra australis
Family Malaconotidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Malaconotidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 116,107
- Countries and territories with records
- 32
About this species
This species has 116,107 occurrence records from 32 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (63.7%), Kenya (6.7%), Tanzania (6.5%), Namibia (4.7%) and Zimbabwe (4.1%); together they account for 85.6% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.19% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Tchagra australis combines the genus name Tchagra with the species epithet australis. The Warbla app catalog lists 4 species of the genus Tchagra; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Tchagra senegalus, Tchagra tchagra and Tchagra jamesi.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 50 species of the family Malaconotidae. This species ranks 6th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Laniarius ferrugineus. Its record count is 3.5 times the family average (32,707). The family Malaconotidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.