rocksea and sarah » olenjali http://www.rocksea.org Experiments with prakriti; our own & life around. For educational, environmental & entertainment purposes. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:58:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 indian treepie http://www.rocksea.org/rufous-treepie http://www.rocksea.org/rufous-treepie#comments Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:20:38 +0000 sarah http://www.rocksea.org/?p=244 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

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