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Monarchidae
Sign in to saveAlso known as the Monarch flycatchers, monarch-flycatcher, monarch, monarch bird, monarch flycatcher
family of birds
OverviewAI-generated
Monarchidae is a family of birds within the order Passeriformes, commonly referred to as passerines. This taxon belongs to the class Aves, phylum Chordata, and kingdom Animalia. The family is governed by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature and is distinct from the family Tyrannidae.
Records for Monarchidae are held by institutions including ANWC, MSU, CLO, QM, and SAMA. These records document occurrences in countries such as the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Madagascar, Vanuatu, Australia, and Japan. The family has 165 records and 18 media items associated with it in specific databases, while a broader occurrence count stands at 3,740,697.
Synthesized by Vinony from 24 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, GBIF, Gbif Occ, iDigBio, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyMonarchidae
Les Monarchidae (ou monarchidés en français) sont une famille de passereaux. Elle comprend principalement des espèces de monarques et de tchitrecs, dont la plupart sont indifféremment nommés gobemouches ou moucherolles.
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 165
- With media
- 18
- Family
- Monarchidae
- Collections
- ANWC, MSU, CLO, QM, SAMA, AM
- Recorded in
- Lao People’S Democratic Republic, Madagascar, Vanuatu, Australia, Japan, Ghana, Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia
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Encyclopedic overview
The monarchs or monarch flycatchers (family Monarchidae) comprise a family of over 100 passerine birds which includes shrikebills, paradise flycatchers, and magpie-larks.
Monarchids are small insectivorous songbirds with long tails. They inhabit forest or woodland across sub-Saharan Africa, south-east Asia, Australasia, and a number of Pacific islands. Only a few species migrate. Many species decorate their cup-shaped nests with lichen.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Monarchidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.