Rufous-tailed Shama

When to see the Rufous-tailed Shama

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Rufous-tailed Shama

The map shades 1 country with regular records, and 2 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Thailand, Indonesia.

About the Rufous-tailed Shama

The rufous-tailed shama is a species of passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. It is found in extreme southern Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra, and Borneo, where its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical swamps. It is threatened by habitat loss.

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Easily confused with

White-vented ShamaCopsychus nigerThe white-vented shama is a species of bird in the chat and flycatcher family Muscicapidae. Seychelles Magpie-RobinCopsychus sechellarumThe Seychelles magpie-robin is a medium-sized endangered bird from the granitic Seychelles in the Indian Ocean. Black ShamaCopsychus cebuensisThe Black shama is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae.