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Visayan Shama
Copsychus superciliaris (Bourns & Worcester, 1894)
Muscicapidae — Chats, Old World Flycatchers
Visayan Shama, Copsychus superciliaris, is a passerine of the Muscicapidae family found in Ticao, Masbate, Negros and Panay in the western Philippines. It lives in moist tropical forest, both primary and secondary, up to 1,000 metres. It is a forest bird with a long tail and a long white eyebrow, and it lacks the white wing patch shown by the White-browed Shama. It is usually encountered in pairs near the ground in tangled undergrowth. Its breeding habits are not known.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Muscicapidae — Chats, Old World Flycatchers
- Breeding range
- Oriental Region: Ticao, Masbate, Negros and Panay (wc Philippines)
