Black-billed magpie - Wikipedia
The black-billed magpie (Pica hudsonia), also known as the American magpie, is a bird in the corvid family found in the western half of North America. It is black and white, with the wings and tail showing black areas and iridescent hints of blue and blue-green.
Black-billed Magpie Identification - All About Birds
Black-billed Magpies are familiar and entertaining birds of western North America. They sit on fenceposts and road signs or flap across rangelands, their white wing patches flashing and their very long tails trailing behind them. This large, flashy relative of jays and crows is a social creature, gathering in numbers to feed at carrion.
Black-billed Magpie | Audubon Field Guide
Black-billed Magpies add much to western landscapes, both with their flashy appearance and with their big bushel-basket nests in trees. In an earlier era, farmers and ranchers tried to exterminate this species, but to no avail, and it is common today …
Black-billed Magpie - All About Birds
Black-billed Magpies are familiar and entertaining birds of western North America. They sit on fenceposts and road signs or flap across rangelands, their white wing patches flashing and their very long tails trailing behind them.
Black-Billed Magpie - National Geographic
An unusually long-tailed black-and-white corvid with a black bill. In good light, black on wings and tail shine with iridescent green, blue, and violet. Juvenile has milky grayish-colored...
Black-billed Magpie Life History - All About Birds
Black-billed Magpies are familiar and entertaining birds of western North America. They sit on fenceposts and road signs or flap across rangelands, their white wing patches flashing and their very long tails trailing behind them. This large, flashy relative of jays and crows is a social creature, gathering in numbers to feed at carrion.
Black-billed Magpie - eBird
Large, conspicuous, black-and-white bird; related to crows and jays. Unmistakably long tail and bold pattern, especially visible in flight. Often spotted along roadsides in open country, fields, and towns. Social and inquisitive, often in small groups foraging on the ground.
Pica hudsonia (black-billed magpie) - ADW
Black-billed magpies are mid-sized birds with a long tail, represent up to half of their length. They range in size from 45 to 60 cm long, with a wingspan of 56 to 61 cm. Black-billed magpies weigh between 145 and 210 g. The head, upper breast, back, and tail are black. There are large patches of white on the wings and lower breast.
Black-Billed Magpie - Facts, Diet, Habitat & Pictures on
The Black-billed magpie (Pica hudsonia) is a bird in the corvidae family that inhabits the western half of North America. It is one of only four North American songbirds whose tail makes up half or more of the total body length.
Black-billed Magpie - Pica hudsonia - Birds of the World
2020年3月4日 · A strikingly marked and conspicuous bird of the cold, shrub-steppe environment of western North America, the Black-billed Magpie has attracted much attention and had a colorful association with early Americans.