Treepie

Treepies
	Rufous treepie pair
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Corvidae
Subfamily:	Crypsirininae
Genera
	Crypsirina; Dendrocitta; Platysmurus; Temnurus;

The treepies (known also as crypsirinines from the subfamily's name, Crypsirininae) 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:

Image	Genus	Living Species
	Crypsirina	Hooded treepie, Crypsirina cucullata Racket-tailed treepie, Crypsirina temia
	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
	Platysmurus	Black magpie, Platysmurus leucopterus
	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

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