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title: "White-rumped Shama"
description: "Copsychus malabaricus — Vogels. The white-rumped shama (Copsychus malabaricus) is a passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/white-rumped-shama
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# White-rumped Shama

> Copsychus malabaricus — Vogels. The white-rumped shama (Copsychus malabaricus) is a passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.

- Scientific name: *Copsychus malabaricus*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos), `zoo` (Dierentuin en huisdieren)
- iNaturalist observations: 14400
- Wikidata: [Q27075635](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27075635)
- iNaturalist taxon: [204490](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/204490)

## Names

- en: White-rumped Shama
- de: Schamadrossel
- es: Shama Culiblanco
- fr: Shama à croupion blanc
- pl: Sroczek białorzytny

## Countries with the most observations

TW (5390), US (3343), TH (1302), IN (934), SG (556), MY (483), VN (463), CN (280), KH (251), HK (181), NP (34), MM (33)

## Summary

The white-rumped shama (Copsychus malabaricus) is a passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. Native to densely vegetated habitats in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, its popularity as a cage-bird and songster has led to it being introduced elsewhere. The Larwo shama, the Kangean shama and the Sri Lanka shama were formerly considered to be conspecific with the white-rumped shama.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-rumped_shama

## Photo

![White-rumped Shama](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/white-rumped-shama/medium.jpg)

Photo: Damien Wallace · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/250390095

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/white-rumped-shama?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).