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The Eurasian magpie or common magpie (Pica pica) is a resident breeding bird throughout the northern part of the Eurasian continent.It is one of several birds in the crow family (corvids) designated magpies, and belongs to the Holarctic radiation of "monochrome" magpies.
Based on the black-billed magpie's smaller size and longer tail and wing length, it was classified as the subspecies P. pica hudsonia. The generic name Pica is the Latin word for magpie, and the specific name hudsonia is in honour of the English explorer Henry Hudson. [3] [4]
Eurasian magpie, Pica pica; Black-billed magpie, Pica hudsonia (may be conspecific with P. pica) Yellow-billed magpie, Pica nuttalli (may be conspecific with P. (pica) hudsonia) Asir magpie, Pica asirensis (may be conspecific with P. pica) Maghreb magpie, Pica mauritanica (may be conspecific with P. pica) Oriental magpie, Pica serica (may be ...
The genus Pica was introduced by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760. [2] [3] He derived the name by tautonymy from the specific epithet of the Eurasian magpie Corvus pica which was introduced by Linnaeus in 1758. [3] [4] Pica is the Latin word for the Eurasian magpie. [5]
The Oriental magpie (Pica serica) is a species of magpie found from south-eastern Russia to eastern China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan and northern Indochina and Myanmar. Other names for the Oriental magpie include Korean magpie [ 1 ] and Asian magpie .
The yellow-billed magpie (Pica nuttalli), also known as the California magpie, is a large corvid that inhabits California's Central Valley and the adjacent chaparral foothills and mountains. Apart from its having a yellow bill and a yellow streak around the eye, it is virtually identical to the black-billed magpie (Pica hudsonia) found in much ...
Cyanopica is a genus of magpie in the family Corvidae. They belong to a common lineage with the genus Perisoreus. [1] The genus Cyanopica was introduced in 1850 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte. [2] The type species was designated by George Gray in 1855 as Corvus cyanus Pallas, 1766, the azure-winged magpie.
Pica pica mauritanica (). The Maghreb magpie (Pica mauritanica) is a species of magpie found in North Africa from Morocco east to Tunisia. [1] It can be distinguished from the Eurasian magpie by the patch of blue skin behind its eye, the narrower white belly, the shorter wings, and the longer tail.