Rufous Treepie (Dendrocitta vagabunda)

Other Names (World)
Rufous Treepie, Treepie, Indian Treepie

Family
Corvidae (Crows And Jays)

Size
46 - 50 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Latham, 1790)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest, dry forest.

Range (Guide)

Bangladesh, Bhutan (B), Cambodia, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (197)...)

Rufous Treepie (Dendrocitta vagabunda) [XC177551]
by Marc Anderson from Bardia National Park, Bheri, Mid-Western Region, Nepal (call)

Rufous Treepie (Dendrocitta vagabunda) [XC147283]
by Frank Lambert from Thiruvananthapuram, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India (call)

Subspecies
Formerly known as Dendrocitta rufa. Perhaps has a distant relationship with Collared Treepie (Dendrocitta frontalis). Recent investigations of type specimens have revealed that proposed name vernayi (hitherto used for south-eastern Indian population, based on birds from Nallamalai Range, in southern Kurnool) is a junior synonym of pallida. The type locality of pallida (originally given erroneously as western Himalayas) has been fixed to Chennai (in Tamil Nadu), and behni is a new name for western Indian population that formerly went under name pallida. Geographical variation clinal, subspecies intergrading. Some of listed subspecies possibly of questionable validity.

The following 9 subspecies are recognised:

bristoli Paynter, 1961 - Eastern Pakistan (south to Karachi) and eastern in Himalayan foothills to northern India (Dehra Dun, in Uttarakhand).
vagabunda (Latham, 1790) - Uttarakhand east to Bangladesh and north-eastern India, southern in peninsula to northern Andhra Pradesh.
behni Steinheimer, 2009 - Western and central India from southern Gujarat (eastern Surat District) south to central Karnataka and east to mountain ridges of eastern western Ghats.
parvula Whistler & Kinnear, 1932 - South-western India (southern Karnataka and Kerala).
pallida (Blyth, 1846) - South-eastern India southern from eastern Ghats (south of R Godavari).
sclateri Baker, ECS, 1922 - Western and northern Myanmar.
kinneari Baker, ECS, 1922 - Central and eastern Myanmar, southern China (south-western Yunnan) and north-western Thailand.
saturatior Ticehurst, 1922 - Southern Myanmar and south-western Thailand.
sakeratensis Gyldenstolpe, 1920 - Central, eastern and south-eastern Thailand, Cambodia, southern Laos and central and southern Vietnam.

References
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Files:

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