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title: "Grijsborstboomekster"
description: "Dendrocitta formosae — Vogels. The grey treepie (Dendrocitta formosae), also known as the Himalayan treepie, is an Asian treepie, a medium-sized and long-tailed member of the crow family."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/gray-treepie
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Grijsborstboomekster

> Dendrocitta formosae — Vogels. The grey treepie (Dendrocitta formosae), also known as the Himalayan treepie, is an Asian treepie, a medium-sized and long-tailed member of the crow family.

- Scientific name: *Dendrocitta formosae*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos)
- iNaturalist observations: 8722
- Wikidata: [Q1589793](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1589793)
- iNaturalist taxon: [8306](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/8306)

## Names

- en: Gray Treepie
- de: Graubrustbaumelster
- es: Urraca gris
- fr: Témia de Swinhoe
- nl: Grijsborstboomekster
- pl: Srokówka maskowa

## Countries with the most observations

TW (6302), CN (788), IN (615), NP (152), HK (97), BT (82), TH (61), BD (9), MM (9), PK (4)

## Summary

The grey treepie (Dendrocitta formosae), also known as the Himalayan treepie, is an Asian treepie, a medium-sized and long-tailed member of the crow family. The species was first described by Robert Swinhoe in 1863. They are widely distributed along the foothills of the Himalayas in the Indian subcontinent and extending into Indochina, Nepal, southern mainland China and Taiwan. The populations vary in plumage and several are named as subspecies.
Grey treepies are omnivorous birds mostly thriving among dense foliage and in forests. They sometimes take part in mixed species flocks with laughingthrushes, especially the…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_treepie

## Photo

![Grijsborstboomekster](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/gray-treepie/medium.jpg)

Photo: 葉子 · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/54365073

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/gray-treepie?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).