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White-rumped shama
Copsychus malabaricus · Family Muscicapidae
Copsychus malabaricus
Family Muscicapidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Muscicapidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 188,176
- Countries and territories with records
- 30
About this species
This species has 188,176 occurrence records from 30 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (28.3%), Taiwan (25.7%), the United States (19.8%), Thailand (17.2%) and Cambodia (2.3%); together they account for 93.3% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 0.087% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Copsychus malabaricus combines the genus name Copsychus with the species epithet malabaricus. The Warbla app catalog lists 13 species of the genus Copsychus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Copsychus saularis, Copsychus fulicatus and Copsychus albospecularis.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 316 species of the family Muscicapidae. This species ranks 22nd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Erithacus rubecula. Its record count is 1.6 times the family average (117,032). The family Muscicapidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.