White-rumped Shama
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. == Taxonomy == The white-rumped shama was formally described in 1786 by the Austrian naturalist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli under the binomial name Muscicapa malabarica. Scopoli based his account on "Le gobe-mouches à longue queue de Gingi" that had been described in 1782 by the French naturalist Pierre Sonnerat in the second volume of his book Voyage aux Indes orientales et à la Chine. Sonnerat mentioned that the bird was found on the Malabar Coast of India. The type locality is Mahé. The white-rumped shama is now one of 17 species placed in the genus Copsychus that was introduced in 1827 by the German naturalist Johann Georg Wagler. Nine subspecies are recognised: C. m. malabaricus (Scopoli, 1786) – west, south India C. m. macrourus (Gmelin, JF, 1789) – Nepal and north India to south China and Indochina including…
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Rangagarapathar, India
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Ramnagar, India
+128 birds+30 mammals
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Thailand
+105 birds+18 mammals
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+127 birds+21 mammals
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+132 birds+30 mammals
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Mueang Rayong District, Thailand
+132 birds+30 mammals
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Sangkhla Buri District, Thailand
+137 birds+25 mammals
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Kanha Kisli F.V., India
+126 birds+29 mammals
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Garhpuri, India
+127 birds+26 mammals
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Kohora, India
+129 birds+30 mammals
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Kuching, Malaysia
+112 birds+18 mammals
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Kuching, Malaysia
+135 birds+21 mammals
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Kampong Samas, Malaysia
150+ birds+17 mammals
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Miri, Malaysia
+137 birds+15 mammals
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Long Seridan, Malaysia
+128 birds+29 mammals
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