White-crowned Shama (Copsychus stricklandii)
About the White-crowned Shama
The white-crowned shama (Copsychus stricklandii) is a medium sized passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. It is endemic to the Southeast Asian island of Borneo. The Maratua shama was formerly treated as a subspecies. It is closely related to the white-rumped shama (Copsychus malabaricus), and has in the past been sometimes considered a subspecies of that species. The Maratua shama was formerly treated as a subspecies but is now treated as a separate species based on the differences in morphology and mitochondrial DNA sequences. The white-crowned shama is now monotypic: no subspecies are recognised. The specific name was bestowed in honour of Hugh Edwin Strickland.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 87 recordings for this species: 51 CC BY-NC-SA · 36 CC BY-NC-ND. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
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Listed as recorded in Malaysia in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Indian RobinCopsychus fulicatusrecording
- Philippine Magpie-RobinCopsychus mindanensisrecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.