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Chinese Blackbird
Turdus mandarinus · Family Turdidae
Turdus mandarinus
Family Turdidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Turdidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 89,791
- Countries and territories with records
- 17

About this species
This species has 89,791 occurrence records from 17 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from China (71.8%), Taiwan (19.5%), Hong Kong (5.3%) and South Korea (1.8%); together they account for 98.4% of the total. In China, this species accounts for 1.4% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Turdus mandarinus combines the genus name Turdus with the species epithet mandarinus. The Warbla app catalog lists 85 species of the genus Turdus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Turdus migratorius, Turdus merula and Turdus philomelos.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 155 species of the family Turdidae. This species ranks 36th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Turdus migratorius. Its record count is 16.9% of the family average (532,772). The family Turdidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.