indian robin

Several races in India. Males differ in having dark brown, blackish- brown or glossy blue-back upper body. Male: dark brown above white wing-patch glossy blueblack below chestnut vent and under tail. Female: lacks white in wings duller grey-brown below. Solitary or in pairs in open country, and often in and around habitation rather suspicious andmaintains safe distance between man and itself hunts on ground, hopping or running in short spurts when on ground, holds head high and often cocks tail, right up to back, flashing the chestnut vent and under tail.

Dry stony areas with scrub and cultivation edges.

They feed mostly on insects but are known to take frogs and lizards especially when feeding young at the nest. Individuals may forage late in the evening to capture insects attracted to lights.

Very short, high-pitched warbling song.

The Indian robin (Copsychus fulicatus) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is widespread in the Indian subcontinent and ranges across Bangladesh Bhutan India Nepal Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The males of northern populations have a brown back whose extent gradually reduces southwards with populations in the southern peninsula having an all black back. They are commonly found in open scrub areas and often seen running along the ground or perching on low thorny shrubs and rocks. The long tail is usually held up and the chestnut undertail coverts and dark body make them easily distinguishable from pied bushchats and oriental magpie robins.