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Zapornia flavirostra · Family Rallidae
Zapornia flavirostra
Family Rallidae
- Order
- Gruiformes
- Family
- Rallidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 140,902
- Countries and territories with records
- 48
About this species
This species has 140,902 occurrence records from 48 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (59.6%), Kenya (8.9%), Uganda (5.3%), Tanzania (3.4%) and Zimbabwe (3.4%); together they account for 80.5% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.21% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Zapornia flavirostra combines the genus name Zapornia with the species epithet flavirostra. The Warbla app catalog lists 10 species of the genus Zapornia; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Zapornia pusilla, Zapornia fusca and Zapornia tabuensis.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 122 species of the family Rallidae. This species ranks 17th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Fulica americana. Its record count is 57.8% of the family average (243,573). The family Rallidae belongs to the order Gruiformes, which has 150 species in the Warbla app catalog.