Oriental magpie-robin
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The Oriental magpie-robin is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but now considered an Old World flycatcher. The males are distinctive black and
Oriental magpie robin male
Oriental magpie robin female Siem Reap
Illustration from John Ray's Synopsis methodicam avium & piscium (1713)
Egg, from the collection of Museum Wiesbaden
Magpie-robin
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The magpie-robins or shamas are medium-sized insectivorous birds in the genus Copsychus. They were formerly in the thrush family Turdidae, but are now treated as part of the Old World flycatcher famil
Oriental magpie-robin
…with this Hindi name from Madras by surgeon Edward Bulkley to James Petiver, who first described the species (Ray, Synops. Meth. Avium, p. 197). This magpie-robin is a resident breeder in tropical southern Asia from Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka and eastern Pakistan, eastern Indonesia, Thailand, south China…
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