Gagak cerdas (Clever Corvids)
Racket-tailed Treepie
Crypsirina temia
- tidak umum
- 41 km/h
- Risiko rendah
Glossy black-green crow relative with tail wires tipped in two flat spatulas. Southeast Asia's strangest silhouette.
- Populasi
- Global population size not quantified; species described as relatively common, with a suspected slow decline (1-19% over three generations) driven by lowland forest loss
- Habitat
- Subtropical/tropical moist lowland forest, plus secondary growth/scrub, bamboo thickets, open fields and gardens, and mangrove edges, from sea level to about 1,250 m, often near villages
- Fakta menarik
- The Racket-tailed Treepie's long, wire-thin tail widens into a racket-like tip that acts as a balancing organ, letting it move through branches with remarkable agility while almost never touching the ground.
- Sebaran
- Southeast Asia, Extent of Occurrence ~4,010,000 km²: resident/breeding in Cambodia, mainland China (Yunnan), Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, Bali), Laos, Peninsular Malaysia, Myanmar (south), Thailand, and Vietnam
- Makanan
- Mainly insects and fruit; forages almost exclusively in trees and shrubs, rarely descending to the ground except occasionally to bathe
- Ukuran
- 0,33 m
- Masa hidup
- 8 tahun
