indian treepie

Watercolor painting of an Indian Treepie, also known as Rufous Treepie, dendrocitta vagabunda.

Indian Treepie

The head, neck and breast of Indian Treepie are a deep slate-grey colour, sometimes slightly brownish. The underparts and lower back are a warm tawny-brown to orange-brown in colour with white wing coverts and black primaries. The tail is a light bluish-grey with a thick black band on the tip.

The Indian Treepie is extremely agile while searching for food, clinging and clambering through the branches. Its acrobatic dances on the coconut palm leaf (ola) has given it the name olenjali  in Malayalam.

Original photograph of the Indian Treepie, by rocksea, used for the painting :

Indian Treepie

9 Responses

  1. Mukundan says:

    I feed olenjaali pazham pori it comes on my kitchen window and takeaway
    It can sing in 3 different soft tones to touch your heart so majestic bold is olenjaali

  2. sumi says:

    Whatever’s going on between ‘Rocksea’ and Sarah, her/their posts are very interesting, informative and artistic. Lovely to read the malayalam!

  3. ankith says:

    sarah are you a malayale

  4. rocksea says:

    olenjalikale nattil vechu veendum kandumuttiyo sarahkutti?

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