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Rufous Treepie

Dendrocitta vagabunda · Family Corvidae

Dendrocitta vagabunda

Family Corvidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Corvidae
GBIF occurrence records
606,654
Countries and territories with records
16
Rufous Treepie
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About this species

This species has 606,654 occurrence records from 16 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (95.2%) and Nepal (1.9%); together they account for 97% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 0.94% of all bird records in GBIF.

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

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 132 species of the family Corvidae. This species ranks 20th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Corvus brachyrhynchos. Its record count is 66.8% 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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