What is Magpie-robin?
{{Taxobox | name = Magpie-Robins | image = White-rumped shama.jpg | image_width = 250px | image_caption = Male White-rumped Shama | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]] | classis = [[bird|Aves]] | ordo = [[Passeriformes]] | familia = [[Muscicapidae]] | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = '' Copsychus ''<br> ''Trichixos'' }} The '''magpie-robins''' or '''shamas'''<ref>{{Cite book| last = Jobling| first = James A.| title = A Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names| url = https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofscie0000jobl| publisher = Oxford University Press| location = | date = 1991| page = [https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofscie0000jobl/page/216 216]| isbn = 0-19-854634-3 }}</ref> are medium-sized [[bird]]s. They mostly eat insects. Some also eat berries and other fruit. They are in the genera ''Copsychus'' and ''Trichixos''. They were used to be in the [[thrush (bird)|thrush]] family Turdidae. They are now treated as part of the [[Old World flycatcher]] Muscicapidae. These are [[Africa]]n and [[Asia]]n garden and forest dwelling species. Species list: * [[Madagascar Magpie-robin]], ''Copsychus albospecularis'' * [[Oriental Magpie-robin]], ''Copsychus saularis'' * [[White-rumped Shama]], ''Copsychus malabaricus'' * [[Seychelles Magpie-robin]], ''Copsychus sechellarum'' * [[White-browed Shama]], ''Copsychus luzoniensis'' * [[White-vented Shama]], ''Copsychus niger'' * [[Black Shama]], ''Copsychus cebuensis'' * [[Rufous-tailed Shama]], ''Trichixos pyrropyga'' ==References== {{reflist}} {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Passeri]]