Terror birds

Phorusrhacidae - family of birds (fossil). This taxon is the 1841^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 358^th most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Terror birds” in Simple English Wikipedia has 24.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 7 references and 1 sections.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Terror birds”, its content was written by 8 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 848 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Phorusrhacidae is on the 358^th place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 1841^st place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 13 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1191 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #472 in August 2011
• Global: #11413 in April 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #614 in November 2023
• Global: #16121 in March 2008

There are 34 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	German (de) Phorusrhacidae		92
2	Dutch (nl) Schrikvogels		87.4884
3	English (en) Phorusrhacidae		75.4462
4	Spanish (es) Phorusrhacidae		53.3758
5	Turkish (tr) Phorusrhacidae		49.6124
6	Ukrainian (uk) Фороракосові		48.0844
7	Polish (pl) Phorusrhacidae		41.3936
8	French (fr) Phorusrhacidae		32.7288
9	Esperanto (eo) Forusracedoj		32.6111
10	Arabic (ar) طيور الرعب		32.265

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Terror birds" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Phorusrhacidae		3 692 509
2	German (de) Phorusrhacidae		547 378
3	Spanish (es) Phorusrhacidae		510 525
4	Russian (ru) Фороракосовые		187 996
5	Chinese (zh) 恐鶴科		183 178
6	Portuguese (pt) Phorusrhacidae		182 894
7	Italian (it) Phorusrhacidae		148 505
8	Dutch (nl) Schrikvogels		82 097
9	Polish (pl) Phorusrhacidae		65 759
10	French (fr) Phorusrhacidae		60 035

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Terror birds" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Phorusrhacidae		18 856
2	Spanish (es) Phorusrhacidae		2 232
3	German (de) Phorusrhacidae		2 074
4	Russian (ru) Фороракосовые		1 252
5	Italian (it) Phorusrhacidae		1 196
6	Portuguese (pt) Phorusrhacidae		1 133
7	Chinese (zh) 恐鶴科		702
8	Japanese (ja) フォルスラコス科		488
9	French (fr) Phorusrhacidae		442
10	Polish (pl) Phorusrhacidae		348

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Terror birds" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Phorusrhacidae		234
2	German (de) Phorusrhacidae		115
3	Dutch (nl) Schrikvogels		59
4	Russian (ru) Фороракосовые		52
5	Spanish (es) Phorusrhacidae		50
6	Italian (it) Phorusrhacidae		50
7	Hungarian (hu) Gyilokmadarak		36
8	Portuguese (pt) Phorusrhacidae		25
9	Chinese (zh) 恐鶴科		24
10	French (fr) Phorusrhacidae		21

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Terror birds" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Spanish (es) Phorusrhacidae		4
2	English (en) Phorusrhacidae		3
3	Arabic (ar) طيور الرعب		1
4	Catalan (ca) Forusràcids		1
5	Basque (eu) Phorusrhacidae		1
6	Uzbek (uz) Fororaklar		1
7	Bulgarian (bg) Фуроратосови		0
8	Czech (cs) Phorusrhacidae		0
9	German (de) Phorusrhacidae		0
10	Greek (el) Φοροραχίδες		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Terror birds" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Phorusrhacidae		328
2	Portuguese (pt) Phorusrhacidae		81
3	Chinese (zh) 恐鶴科		77
4	French (fr) Phorusrhacidae		73
5	Dutch (nl) Schrikvogels		66
6	Spanish (es) Phorusrhacidae		63
7	Hebrew (he) פורוסרקוסיים		56
8	Italian (it) Phorusrhacidae		52
9	Ukrainian (uk) Фороракосові		49
10	German (de) Phorusrhacidae		43

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic طيور الرعب
bg	Bulgarian Фуроратосови
ca	Catalan Forusràcids
cs	Czech Phorusrhacidae
de	German Phorusrhacidae
el	Greek Φοροραχίδες
en	English Phorusrhacidae
eo	Esperanto Forusracedoj
es	Spanish Phorusrhacidae
et	Estonian Phorusrhacidae
eu	Basque Phorusrhacidae
fa	Persian دهشت‌مرغان
fi	Finnish Hirmulinnut
fr	French Phorusrhacidae
he	Hebrew פורוסרקוסיים
hu	Hungarian Gyilokmadarak
id	Indonesian Phorusrhacidae
it	Italian Phorusrhacidae
ja	Japanese フォルスラコス科
ka	Georgian ფორორაციდისებრნი
ko	Korean 공포새
lt	Lithuanian Fororakiniai
nl	Dutch Schrikvogels
pl	Polish Phorusrhacidae
pt	Portuguese Phorusrhacidae
ro	Romanian Phorusrhacidae
ru	Russian Фороракосовые
simple	Simple English Terror birds
sv	Swedish Phorusrhacidae
tr	Turkish Phorusrhacidae
uk	Ukrainian Фороракосові
uz	Uzbek Fororaklar
vi	Vietnamese Phorusrhacidae
zh	Chinese 恐鶴科

Best Rank

Simple English: #614 11.2023

Global: #16121 03.2008

Best Rank

Simple English: #472 08.2011

Global: #11413 04.2024

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