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Red-faced Mousebird

Urocolius indicus · Family Coliidae

Urocolius indicus

Family Coliidae

Order
Coliiformes
Family
Coliidae
GBIF occurrence records
241,066
Countries and territories with records
19
Red-faced Mousebird
Patty McGann · Red-faced Mousebird (Urocolius indicus) hanging in tree, front view.jpg · CC BY 2.0 · Patty McGann · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · JMK · Urocolius_indicus_transvaalensis,_roep,_2022-12-01_08h55,_Pretoria,_a.mp3 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · JMK · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 241,066 occurrence records from 19 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (88.9%), Namibia (3.1%), Botswana (2.4%), Zimbabwe (1.9%) and Zambia (1.7%); together they account for 97.9% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.54% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Urocolius indicus combines the genus name Urocolius with the species epithet indicus. The Warbla app catalog lists one other species of the genus Urocolius: Urocolius macrourus.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 6 species of the family Coliidae. This species ranks 2nd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Colius striatus. Its record count is 1.8 times the family average (131,376). The family Coliidae belongs to the order Coliiformes, which has 6 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Coliidae

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