While visiting Ranthambore NP in Rajasthan, India we stayed west of the park at Khem Villas, a beautiful resort that grows its own food, has large ponds that house crocodiles and lots of trees and brush. I asked one of the staff to give me a tour of the grounds and during that tour he identified an Indian robin that I was able to photograph. The male, which I saw, had primarily black plumage with a brownish crown and upper back, a white shoulder patch and chestnut undertail coverts.
The female is brownish above, does not have a white shoulder patch and is grayish below. There are a number of subspecies and the range map from Wikipedia below shows how the subspecies are dispersed. We saw ssp. cambaiensis and this illustrations from Birds of the World, both male and female, are from that subspecies.
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| Illustration of ssp. cambaiensis, male, from Birds of the World. |
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| Illustration of the female from Birds of the World. |
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| Range map from Birds of the World. |
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| Range map from Wikipedia that breaks out the ranges of the subspecies. |
I'm curious if this is related to the U.S. robin and how it compares look-wise. It seems more squat.
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