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The Indian Tree Pie is a long-tailed chestnut-brown bird, with sooty head and neck. It has a black-tipped tail and greyish-white wing patches conspicuous in flight. Its flight is undulating - a swift noisy flapping followed by a short glide on outspread wings and tail. Both sexes are alike.
It frequents wooded countries and scrub jungles. It freely enters residential compounds and gardens. It is usually found in noisy pairs or family parties. It has a variety of calls, some loud, harsh and guttural, others pleasing and melodious, one of the commonest of the later being a clear bob-o-link or kokila. It is omnivorous like cows and will take fruits, insects, lizards, frogs, centipedes and even carrion, in addition to the eggs and helpless young of birds and rodents. Its nestig season is from February to July.
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