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Sri Lanka Shama
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Sri Lanka Shama
Copsychus leggei
The Sri Lanka shama (Copsychus leggei) is a medium-sized passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae that is endemic to Sri Lanka. It was formerly considered to be conspecific with the white-rumped shama.
From the article Sri Lanka shama on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The Sri Lanka shama has glossy blue-black upperparts, bright chestnut underparts, a white rump and white outer tail feathers. The sexes are similar. Compared to the nominate subspecies of white-rumped shama that is present in India, the Sri Lanka shama has a shorter tail, paler belly and less sexual dimorphism.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1584560.