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African Paradise Flycatcher
Terpsiphone viridis · Family Monarchidae
Terpsiphone viridis
Family Monarchidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Monarchidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 223,139
- Countries and territories with records
- 49
About this species
This species has 223,139 occurrence records from 49 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (53.8%), Kenya (14.4%), Tanzania (4.2%), Uganda (3.8%) and Zimbabwe (3%); together they account for 79.1% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.3% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Terpsiphone viridis combines the genus name Terpsiphone with the species epithet viridis. The Warbla app catalog lists 15 species of the genus Terpsiphone; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Terpsiphone paradisi, Terpsiphone rufiventer and Terpsiphone affinis.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 92 species of the family Monarchidae. This species ranks 4th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Grallina cyanoleuca. Its record count is 5.5 times the family average (40,912). The family Monarchidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.