Common tailorbird: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the common tailorbird lives – recorded in 17 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Orthotomus sutorius
Group	Songbirds & perching birds
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	17 countries
Continents	Asia
Mass	7.5 g (adult weight)
Class	Bird
Order	Passeriformes
Family	Cisticolidae

Where does the common tailorbird live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the common tailorbird in 17 countries and territories across Asia. Wikidata gives its range as: Nanling Mountains, Indonesia.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

How big is a common tailorbird?

Wikidata records the following for the common tailorbird: mass 7.5 g (adult weight).

Is the common tailorbird endangered?

The common tailorbird’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the common tailorbird?

The common tailorbird (Orthotomus sutorius) is a bird in the order Passeriformes and the family Cisticolidae, genus Orthotomus. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the common tailorbird

The common tailorbird (Orthotomus sutorius) is a songbird found across tropical and subtropical Asia. Popular for its nest made of leaves "sewn" together and immortalized by Rudyard Kipling as Darzee in his Jungle Book, it is a common resident in urban gardens. Although shy birds that are usually hidden within vegetation, their loud calls are familiar and give away their presence. They are distinctive in having a long upright tail, greenish upper body plumage and rust coloured forehead and crown. This passerine bird is typically found in open farmland, scrub, forest edges and gardens. Tailorbirds get their name from the way their nest is constructed. The edges of a large leaf are pierced and sewn together with plant fibre or spider silk to make a cradle in which the actual nest is built.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Common tailorbird (revision 1370632098), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q795556 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).