WHITE-RUMPED SHARMA

 

Photographed at Cat Tien National Park, Vietnam, May 2024.

(1044*)                    WHITE-RUMPED SHARMA                Copsychus malabaricus

VIETNAM       20

The white-rumped shama (Copsychus malabaricus) is a small passerine bird of the 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.

WHITE-RUMPED SHAMA

 

Photographed in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, November 2023

(*  1044)                WHITE-RUMPED SHAMA                 Copsychus malabaricus

CAMBODIA                  31

Founds in forests. 22 cm. Common in SE Asia: Rare to locally fairly common breeding resident from lowlands up to mid hills, mainly in dry lowlands.

WHITE-RUMPED SHAMA

Subspecies leggei, photographed March 2017

(*   1044)                WHITE-RUMPED SHAMA                 Copsychus malabaricus

SRI LANKA                   42

Founds in forests. 22 cm. Rare to locally fairly common breeding resident from lowlands up to mid hills, mainly in dry lowlands.

WHITE-RUMPED SHAMA

Photographed in Chitwen NP, Nepal March 2017

1044            WHITE-RUMPED SHAMA                    Copsychus malabaricus

NEPAL               133

found close to ground in undergrowth and low trees in broadleaved forests. 25 cm. Locally fairly common resident.