Prakruti Parichay
AnatidaeDendrocygna

Andaman Treepie

Oendrocitta baylen

32–32 cmMedium
Beak
—
Feet
—
Crest
No crest

Resident. Andamans, where the only treepie. A small treepie, with blue-grey head and neck (with blacker face) merging into dull rufous-brown mantle and bright rufous underparts; also blackish wings with white patch at base of secondaries. and blackish tail. Iris is strikingly yellow. Juvenile has browner hood, brownish fringes to wing-coverts, duller iris, and shorter and greyer tail. Dense evergreen forest.

Colour

Rufous / Red-brownBrownBlackBlue
Average size
32 cm
Habitat
Dense evergreen forest.
Behaviour
Resident.

About this bird

Resident. Andamans, where the only treepie. A small treepie, with blue-grey head and neck (with blacker face) merging into dull rufous-brown mantle and bright rufous underparts; also blackish wings with white patch at base of secondaries. and blackish tail. Iris is strikingly yellow. Juvenile has browner hood, brownish fringes to wing-coverts, duller iris, and shorter and greyer tail. Dense evergreen forest.

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Andaman Treepie is bigger than Persian Shearwater but smaller than Besra.

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Andaman Treepie

Oendrocitta baylen

32–32 cm