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Dendrocitta formosae · Family Corvidae

Dendrocitta formosae

Family Corvidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Corvidae
GBIF occurrence records
395,127
Countries and territories with records
14
Grey Treepie
Francesco Veronesi from Italy · Grey Treepie - Taiwan S4E5639 (22595777170).jpg · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Francesco Veronesi from Italy · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 395,127 occurrence records from 14 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Taiwan (78.2%), India (13.2%), Nepal (2.5%), China (2.3%) and Bhutan (1.5%); together they account for 97.7% of the total. In Taiwan, this species accounts for 1.5% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Dendrocitta formosae combines the genus name Dendrocitta with the species epithet formosae. The Warbla app catalog lists 6 species of the genus Dendrocitta; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Dendrocitta vagabunda, Dendrocitta leucogastra and Dendrocitta cinerascens.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 132 species of the family Corvidae. This species ranks 25th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Corvus brachyrhynchos. Its record count is 43.5% of the family average (908,707). The family Corvidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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