Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Oriental magpie-robin (Copsychus saularis) is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but now considered an Old World flycatcher. They are distinctive black and white birds with a long tail that is held upright as they forage on the ground or perch conspicuously.
xeno-canto is a citizen science project and repository in which volunteers record, upload and annotate recordings of bird calls and sounds of orthoptera and bats. [2] Since it began in 2005, it has collected over 575,000 sound recordings from more than 10,000 species worldwide, and has become one of the biggest collections of bird sounds in the world. [1]
[6] [7] It was formerly considered as a subspecies of the oriental magpie-robin (Copsychus saularis) but was promoted to species status based on the results of a molecular phylogenetic study that was published in 2009. [7] [8] The species is monotypic. [7] The genus name Copsychus is from the Ancient Greek kopsukhos or kopsikhos for a "blackbird".
This is a list of the bird species recorded in the Philippines. The avifauna of the Philippines include a total of 743 species, of which 229 are endemic , five have been introduced by humans. This list's taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) follow the ...
Oriental magpie-robin, Copsychus saularis (A) Chinese blue flycatcher, Cyornis glaucicomans (A) Fujian niltava, Niltava davidi (A) Blue-and-white flycatcher, Cyanoptila cyanomelana; Zappey's flycatcher, Cyanoptila cumatilis (A) Verditer flycatcher, Eumyias thalassinus (A) European robin, Erithacus rubecula (A) Rufous-tailed robin, Larvivora ...
The magpie-robins or shamas (from shama, Bengali and Hindi for C. malabaricus) [2] are medium-sized insectivorous birds (some also eat berries and other fruit) in the genus Copsychus. They were formerly in the thrush family Turdidae, but are now treated as part of the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Pages for logged out editors learn more
Audio files of bird calls are useful for identification and this is a fairly long recording of the song. Common species in North America, but exotic to the rest of the world. Recorded Sandbanks Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada -- 2007 May by Mdf. Nominate and support. - Durova Charge! 08:14, 5 August 2008 (UTC)