White-rumped Shama
Copsychus malabaricus
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 8,097
- Most observed in
- 🇹🇼 Taiwan
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The white-rumped shama (Copsychus malabaricus) is a passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. Native to densely vegetated habitats in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, its popularity as a cage-bird and songster has led to it being introduced elsewhere. The Larwo shama, the Kangean shama and the Sri Lanka shama were formerly considered to be conspecific with the white-rumped shama.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “White-rumped shama”.