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Oriental Magpie-Robin

Copsychus saularis

हिन्दी: दयाल, दहियर

IUCN: Least Concern
Oriental Magpie-Robin (Copsychus saularis) photographed by Devendra Bhardwaj

Image: Devendra Bhardwaj · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0 · Vaishali Nagar, Jaipur, Rajasthan · Resized

Scientific name
Copsychus saularis
Hindi name
दयाल, दहियर
Family
Muscicapidae, order Passeriformes
Group
Bird
Conservation status
Least Concern

A black-and-white songster that greets the dawn.

  • Spot it Glossy black and white, with a long tail held upright.
  • Home Gardens, woodland edges and villages.
  • Food web Eats insects and small invertebrates.
  • Why it matters Eats insects, worms and small invertebrates, helping balance garden life.

Read more: Oriental magpie-robin on Wikipedia

Sources and credits

Records and field notes

  • RajasthanDevendra Bhardwaj has 3 verified records of this species on iNaturalist, between 2022 and 2026, in Jaipur.[20]

Sources

  1. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (species pages linked on each entry) (database). Global conservation status. Every species page was opened.
  2. Devendra Bhardwaj. iNaturalist observations and notes, with place and date (inaturalist.org/people/devendrabhardwaj) (field record). The observer's own dated records and notes, with places. Statements in his notes are his own and were not independently checked by KJVF.
  3. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and GBIF species data (family, order, Hindi names, IUCN category) (database). Open biodiversity data. Used for classification, Hindi common names and the IUCN category where one is given.
  4. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (opening lines of each species article, CC BY-SA 4.0). The link on each entry goes to the article (reference). Not peer reviewed. Only the opening description is used, and statements about origin or medicinal use are left out.
  5. Short introductions and key points written with AI help (Google Gemini and Claude) and checked against GBIF where possible (reference). AI-assisted text for general readers. Please check important details before relying on them.

The tag before each record shows the place it was checked for.

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