The white-rumped Shama (in pic), a songster with a long, graduated tail, has been spotted for the first time here this winter at Karanji lake. A group of volunteers reported the sighting in mid ...

In the rainforests of West Kalimantan, in Indonesian Borneo, the Indigenous Dayak Iban listen to what they call “omen birds,” ...

Not all of these birds became established, but many did, and the musical white-rumped shama was among them. Shamas were first released on Kauai in 1931 and then on Oahu between 1938 and 1940.

They are the white-rumped shama, straw-headed bulbul and Javan pied starling — a critically endangered species. The move comes amid protests from songbird owners and breeders, who have raised ...

The white-rumped shama isn’t the only Malaysian songbird species that is facing an existential threat due to high demand and low levels of effective enforcement of the illegal wildlife trade in ...

PETALING JAYA: The international trade of South-East Asia's most popular songbird, the white-rumped shama, has led to "incredible numbers" of birds seized in markets in and around Malaysia ...

Our forests are getting quieter, devoid of the loud, dulcet music of the white-rumped shama. Of all the local songbirds, white-rumped shamas (known as murai batu in Bahasa Malaysia) produce one of ...

Fledglings of a common bird, the white-rumped shama, in a tropical forest in Thailand were more likely to survive if they came from nests near a roadway than if they fledged deeper in the forest ...

This has led to a decline in many species in the wild, such as the White-rumped Shama—one of more than two dozen species that has disappeared across much of its former domestic range in Southeast Asia ...

Bird life in the area also includes striking introduced species like the saffron finch—a colorful canary lookalike that’s native to South America—as well as the white-rumped shama ...