Warbla · Library
Indian paradise flycatcher
Terpsiphone paradisi · Family Monarchidae
Terpsiphone paradisi
Family Monarchidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Monarchidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 230,214
- Countries and territories with records
- 37
About this species
This species has 230,214 occurrence records from 37 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (80.6%), Sri Lanka (7.1%), Thailand (3.4%), Malaysia (2.8%) and Singapore (1.1%); together they account for 95.1% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 0.3% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Terpsiphone paradisi combines the genus name Terpsiphone with the species epithet paradisi. The Warbla app catalog lists 15 species of the genus Terpsiphone; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Terpsiphone viridis, Terpsiphone rufiventer and Terpsiphone affinis.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 92 species of the family Monarchidae. This species ranks 3rd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Grallina cyanoleuca. Its record count is 5.6 times the family average (40,912). The family Monarchidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.