Profile
In flight
Songbirds
Indian Robin
Copsychus fulicatus
- uncommon
- 48 km/h
- Least Concern
It hops along the sun-baked wall with its tail flicked up like a flag, flashing orange — a small black spark of confidence in the dry country.
- Population
- large and stable; widespread resident
- Habitat
- dry scrub, rocky country, village walls, gardens, cultivated edges across the Indian subcontinent
- Diet
- ground-foraged insects, spiders, small lizards
- Size
- 0.17 m
- Wingspan
- 0.22 m
