Rare Bird Spotted At Karanji Lake

February 6, 2020

Mysore/Mysuru: In a special discovery, bird lovers have spotted a White-Rumped Shama (Copsychus malabaricus) at the Karanji Lake inside the Chamarajendra Zoological Garden. A group of volunteers reported the rare sighting at the Lake. 

A team comprising S. Nisarga, S. Shylajesha and Sudhanshu Hegde spotted the songster bird and according to Shylajesha, the bird is usually found in the thick forests of Biligiri Rangana Betta, Male Madeshwara Betta and Bandipur Tiger Reserve.

It is a thrush-like bird with a long, graduated tail. Males are glossy back above and rich chestnut below while the females are similar but paler. Juveniles are reddish brown with rusty wing bars. Dense lowland and hill forests, forest edge, and overgrown orchards and plantations are the bird’s favourite habitat. 

It is a popular cage bird and its song is a varied series of loud whistles and flutelike notes, often involving mimicry of other birds. 

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Conservation agency, wildlife group to release 100 songbirds in Kerinci Seblat

Jon Afrizal

The Jakarta Post

Jambi / Tue, July 16, 2019 / 06:24 pm

The Jambi Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) and Flora and Fauna International (FFI) are set to release 100 white-rumped shamas into the wild amid rampant illegal hunting in Jambi province.

Locally known as murai batu or kurcica hutan, the songbirds will be released at Kerinci Seblat National Park (TNKS) in September.

Agency head Rahmad Saleh acknowledged that the release of the birds was a response to the decline of the species in the wild due to widespread hunting.

Even though the population of the singing bird is reported to be threatened, the white-rumped shama is not listed as a protected bird in Indonesia.

“We have so many singing birds right now. However, the population will continue to decline,” Rahmad said.

The birds, to be released in September, come from breeding facilities in Bogor, West Java. Each breeding facility in the country is obliged to release 10 percent of the animals it breeds into the wild.

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Rare species of birds and butterflies flourishing in heartland and urban parks

Mar 25, 2017, 2:41 pm SGT

Melody Zaccheus

white-rumped sharma (f) Source:Wikipedia

SINGAPORE - Your neighbourhood park could be home to rare species of birds, such as the blue-crowned hanging parrot, spotted wood owl and the endangered white-rumped shama.

Of the 152 bird species spotted by NParks' "citizen scientists" during three garden bird watching sessions over the past two years, 110 of them were found in urban green pockets, such as Yishun Park, Punggol Park and Choa Chu Kang Park.

These findings from NParks' Community in Nature Biodiversity Watch programmes, which were first launched in April 2015, were shared by Senior Minister of State for Home Affairs and National Development Desmond Lee on Saturday morning at an event at Kent Ridge Park (March 25).

The programme has grown from 400 volunteers to 1,000. So far, three garden bird watching sessions, two butterfly watches and three BioBlitzes have been carried out.

BioBlitzes involve participants spending either 12 or 24 hours documenting biodiversity in an area.

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