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Oriental magpie robin

Oriental Magpie Robin (Copsychus saularis) is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, family Muscicapidae. It is also known as Oriental Magpie Robin, Straits Robin and Magpie.
This magpie-robin is an insectivorous species which is a resident breeder in tropical southern Asia from Bangladesh, Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka east to Indonesia, south China and the Philippines.
The Oriental Magpie Robin is found in open woodland, cultivated areas and around human habitation. It nests in a hole, often in a wall, laying 3-6 eggs which are incubated by both sexes.
This species is 19cm long, including the long cocked tail. It is similar in shape to the smaller European Robin, but is longer-tailed. The male has black upperparts, head and throat apart from a white shoulder patch. The underparts and the sides of the long tail are white. Females are grey above and greyish white. Young birds have scaly brown upperparts and head.
The Oriental Magpie Robin is a common and tame bird. It is terrestrial, hopping along the ground with cocked tail. The male sings loud melodic notes from the top of a perch during the breeding season.

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Oriental magpie robin (Copsychus saularis)female
Oriental magpie robin (Copsychus saularis)female		 Oriental magpie robin (Copsychus saularis)female
Oriental magpie robin (Copsychus saularis)female		 Oriental magpie robin (Copsychus saularis)male
Oriental magpie robin (Copsychus saularis)male		 Oriental magpie robin (Copsychus saularis)male
Oriental magpie robin (Copsychus saularis)male		 Oriental magpie robin (Copsychus saularis)female
Oriental magpie robin (Copsychus saularis)female
Oriental magpie robin (Copsychus saularis)female
Oriental magpie robin (Copsychus saularis)female		 Oriental magpie robin (Copsychus saularis)male
Oriental magpie robin (Copsychus saularis)male		 Oriental magpie robin (Copsychus saularis)male
Oriental magpie robin (Copsychus saularis)male		 Oriental magpie robin (Copsychus saularis)female
Oriental magpie robin (Copsychus saularis)female		 Oriental magpie robin (Copsychus saularis)male
Oriental magpie robin (Copsychus saularis)male
Oriental magpie robin (Copsychus saularis)female
Oriental magpie robin (Copsychus saularis)female		 Oriental magpie robin (Copsychus saularis)male
Oriental magpie robin (Copsychus saularis)male		 Oriental magpie robin (Copsychus saularis)male
Oriental magpie robin (Copsychus saularis)male		 Oriental magpie robin (Copsychus saularis)female
Oriental magpie robin (Copsychus saularis)female		 Oriental magpie robin (Copsychus saularis)juv.
Oriental magpie robin (Copsychus saularis)juv.
Oriental magpie robin (Copsychus saularis)male
Oriental magpie robin (Copsychus saularis)male

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gardener24-Apr-2010 05:23
Interestin gallery of a bird that we don't know in Provence. We have a lot of robins and magpies but no hybrids, Peter
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