A corvid with a long tail and white belly, it lives in the humid hill forests of the Western Ghats.
Its black face, white belly, and long tail are conspicuous.
The White-bellied Treepie is a Western Ghats endemic and a forest specialist, classified as resident in the Indian assessment. The 2025 State of India's Birds update estimates its distribution range in India at about 59,880 square kilometres. It summarizes long-term and recent patterns from regional bird records for this forest-dwelling species.
The update estimates a 53.37% long-term decline in India and a 2.34% decrease in the current annual trend. Both estimates have uncertainty ranges, and their reported confidence intervals fall on the declining side. The global Red List category is Least Concern. The assessment tracks records from Western Ghats forests separately from the national trend.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.
India's 2025 assessment estimates a 53.37% long-term decline and a 2.34% decrease in the current annual trend for White-bellied Treepies. Its estimated range is about 59,880 square kilometres, while the global Red List category is Least Concern.