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Species
Least ConcernSPECIES
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyMuscicapidae
via GBIF · IUCN
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 6
- With media
- 6
- Family
- Muscicapidae
- Collections
- CLO
- Recorded in
- Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan
Bird sounds
- song· Sri Lanka· quality A
- song, subsong· India· quality A
- song· India· quality A
- call· India· quality A
via Xeno-canto
Wikidata facts
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- taxon name
- Copsychus fulicatus
- taxon rank
- species
- taxon common name
- pisco-indiano
- Commons category
- Copsychus fulicatus
- Commons gallery
- Copsychus fulicatus
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- short name
- C. fulicatus
- taxon author citation
- (Linnaeus, 1766)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Indian robin (Copsychus fulicatus) is a species of passerine bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is widespread in the Indian subcontinent and ranges across Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The males of the northern subspecies have brown backs whose extent gradually reduces southwards, with the males of the southern subspecies having all-black backs. They are commonly found in open scrub areas and often seen running along the ground or perching on low thorny shrubs and rocks. The long tail is usually held up and the chestnut undertail coverts and dark body make them easily distinguishable from pied bushchats and Oriental magpie-robins.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Copsychus fulicatus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.