Profile
In flight
Clever Corvids
Rufous Treepie
Dendrocitta vagabunda
- uncommon
- 48 km/h
- Least Concern
A long bright tail flicks across the canopy and a metallic ko-ki-la rings out — half corvid trickster, half garden ornament. It will steal anything not nailed down.
- Population
- large and stable; abundant in suitable habitat
- Habitat
- open woodland, mango groves, villages, parks across the Indian subcontinent and Indochina
- Diet
- fruit, large insects, lizards, eggs and nestlings, kitchen scraps
- Size
- 0.5 m
- Wingspan
- 0.4 m
