1: Where can you find oriental magpie robins?
They inhabit a variety of environments, including evergreen and deciduous forests, scrublands, savannahs, and urban gardens or green spaces.
2: How can you identify male and female Oriental magpie robins?
Males have a glossy blue-black body with a white belly, while females are slaty grey with a white belly. Both sexes have a white wing bar and a black tail with white sides that is often cocked up.
3: When and where are these birds most active?
They are active at dusk, often foraging on the ground in leaf litter with their tails cocked up.
4: What do they eat?
Their diet mainly consists of insects, including beetles, dragonflies, ants, crickets, and grasshoppers, as well as worms, mollusks, spiders, and occasionally small geckos, fish, fruits, and nectar.
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