Northeast Thailand … A cinnamon-coloured, pheasant-sized daily visitor, locally called 'Nokaput' and which sings like a chorister! (1 Viewer)

[Ossy]

Having given so much of the show away, which forum members are lucky enough to have this beauty as a daily garden visitor?
My initial Google/Wiki search suggests that they are either Grey Treepie or Rufous Treepie.
I live in Isan, about 100km SW of the Mekong's huge bulge on the Laos/Thai border. Any further info will be more than welcome.
Here's an eBird photo . . .

https://ebird.org/species/grytre1?siteLanguage=en_IN

 

[nartreb]

Is this an identification question? The two species are pretty easy to tell apart - look at the amount of white in the wings and you can't go wrong even at a distance. I believe rufous is more common and widespread but both are possible at your location - it's possible that you are seeing both at the same time.

I have fond memories of seeing rufous treepies throughout India - colorful, talkative, and intelligent, as corvids often are. But they're not really pheasant-sized. A typical pheasant (say, Golden) weighs about five times as much as a treepie.

I would not be too surprised if the local name "nokaput" referred to both species ambiguously or to treepies/magpies generally. Unfortunately I don't speak Thai, making it difficult to search for the word. Perhaps you can find a clue starting here: Thai Wikipedia: Corvidae (Treepies are Dendrocitta. None of the treepies have a page in Wikipedia in Thai, but here's a relative: red-billed blue magpie)

 

[Ossy]

Is this an identification question? The two species are pretty easy to tell apart - look at the amount of white in the wings and you can't go wrong even at a distance. I believe rufous is more common and widespread but both are possible at your location - it's possible that you are seeing both at the same time.

I have fond memories of seeing rufous treepies throughout India - colorful, talkative, and intelligent, as corvids often are. But they're not really pheasant-sized. A typical pheasant (say, Golden) weighs about five times as much as a treepie.

I would not be too surprised if the local name "nokaput" referred to both species ambiguously or to treepies/magpies generally. Unfortunately I don't speak Thai, making it difficult to search for the word. Perhaps you can find a clue starting here: Thai Wikipedia: Corvidae (Treepies are Dendrocitta. None of the treepies have a page in Wikipedia in Thai, but here's a relative: red-billed blue magpie)

Thanks for that and maybe I was somewhat off-kilter in saying 'pheasant-sized' … I'm amazed at your 'five times as much' though! I'll have a good look at those links you've included, although I also don't speak a word of Thai.