Dendrocitta is a genus of long-tailed passerine birds in the crow and jay family, Corvidae. They are resident in tropical South and Southeast Asia. The generic name is derived from the Greek words dendron, meaning "tree," and kitta, meaning "magpie".[2]
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The species are plumaged in black, grey and rufous. Typically, the face and flight feathers are black, and the back is rufous. They are highly arboreal and rarely come to the ground to feed.
They are, in taxonomic order:
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Genus Dendrocitta – Gould, 1833 – seven species
| Common name |
Scientific name and subspecies |
Range |
Size and ecology |
IUCN status and estimated population |
| Grey treepie
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Dendrocitta formosae
R. Swinhoe, 1863
|
Indochina, southern mainland China and Taiwan |
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LC
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| Rufous treepie
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Dendrocitta vagabunda
(Latham, 1790) |
Indian subcontinent and adjoining parts of Southeast Asia |
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LC
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| Collared treepie
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Dendrocitta frontalis
Horsfield, 1840 |
northeastern Indian Himalayas, Bangladesh, Nepal and across into Burma |
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LC
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| Sumatran treepie
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Dendrocitta occipitalis
(Müller, S, 1836) |
Sumatra in Indonesia |
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LC
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| Bornean treepie
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Dendrocitta cinerascens
Sharpe, 1879 |
Borneo |
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LC
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| White-bellied treepie
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Dendrocitta leucogastra
Gould, 1833 |
Western Ghats, mainly south of Goa
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LC
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| Andaman treepie
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Dendrocitta bayleii
Tytler, 1863 |
Andaman Islands of India |
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