RACKET-TAILED TREEPIE

Photographed at Dong Nai Nature Reserve, Vietnam, May 2024.

 1342                    RACKET-TAILED TREEPIE                   Crypsirina temia

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The racket-tailed treepie (Crypsirina temia) is an Asian treepie, a member of the crow family, Corvidae. This bird occurs in southern Burma (Myanmar), Thailand, Indo-China, Sumatra, Java and Bali in scrub and secondary growth, open fields and gardens, bamboo thickets and open forest often near villages. It almost always feeds in trees (arboreal) never feeding from the ground though coming down to bathe on occasion. It moves through the trees with great agility and uses its remarkable tail as a balancing organ. It eats mainly insects and fruit.