Treepie

Treepies
Grey treepie
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Corvidae
Genera
Crypsirina Dendrocitta Platysmurus Temnurus

The treepies comprise four closely related genera (Dendrocitta, Crypsirina, Temnurus and Platysmurus) of long-tailed passerine birds in the family Corvidae. There are 11 species of treepie. Treepies are similar to magpies. Most treepies are black, white, gray or brown. They are found in Southeast Asia. They live in tropical forests. They are highly arboreal and rarely come to the ground to feed.

Species

Following Ericson et al. (2005), the black magpie is placed with the treepies:

• Genus Crypsirina
  • Hooded treepie, Crypsirina cucullata
  • Racket-tailed treepie, Crypsirina temia
• Genus Dendrocitta
  • Andaman treepie, Dendrocitta bayleyi
  • Bornean treepie, Dendrocitta cinerascens
  • Grey treepie, Dendrocitta formosae
  • Collared treepie, Dendrocitta frontalis
  • White-bellied treepie, Dendrocitta leucogastra
  • Sumatran treepie, Dendrocitta occipitalis
  • Rufous treepie, Dendrocitta vagabunda
• Genus Platysmurus
  • Black magpie, Platysmurus leucopterus
• Genus Temnurus
  • Ratchet-tailed treepie, Temnurus temnurus

References

• Ericson, Per G. P.; Jansén, Anna-Lee; Johansson, Ulf S. & Ekman, Jan (2005): Inter-generic relationships of the crows, jays, magpies and allied groups (Aves: Corvidae) based on nucleotide sequence data. Journal of Avian Biology 36: 222-234. PDF fulltext

External links

• Treepie videos on the Internet Bird Collection