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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.
The Australian magpie, Cracticus tibicen, is conspicuously "pied", with black and white plumage reminiscent of a Eurasian magpie. It is a member of the family Artamidae and not a corvid. The magpie-robins, members of the genus Copsychus, have a similar "pied" appearance, but they are Old World flycatchers, unrelated to the corvids.
[3] [4] Pica is the Latin word for the Eurasian magpie. [ 5 ] In 2018, a molecular phylogenetic study found that the Eurasian magpie consisted of multiple species including the Maghreb magpie , the Asir magpie , the black-rumped magpie and the oriental magpie .
The word "magpie" comes from a combination of "Mag", which was a nickname for Margaret, and "pie", which was the Middle English word for the Eurasian magpie. The name Margaret was associated with chattiness in the early 15th century, and was applied to the magpie because its vocalizations were thought to sound like a person chattering.
Eurasian blackcap; Eurasian bullfinch; Eurasian collared dove; Eurasian coot; Eurasian crag martin; Eurasian curlew; Eurasian golden oriole; Eurasian hoopoe; Eurasian jay; Eurasian magpie; Eurasian nuthatch; Eurasian oystercatcher; Eurasian penduline tit; Eurasian scops owl; Eurasian siskin; Eurasian skylark; Eurasian sparrowhawk; Eurasian ...
The common green magpie (Cissa chinensis) is a member of the crow family, roughly about the size of the Eurasian jay or slightly smaller. In the wild specimens are usually a bright and lush green in colour (often fades to turquoise in captivity or with poor diet as the pigment is carotenoid based [2]), slightly lighter on the underside and has a thick black stripe from the bill (through the ...
The type species is the common raven (Corvus corax); [11] others named by Linnaeus in the same work include the carrion crow (C. corone), hooded crow (C. cornix), rook (C. frugilegus), and two species which have since been moved to other genera, the western jackdaw (now Coloeus monedula) and the Eurasian magpie (now Pica pica).
This is a list of the bird species recorded in Greece.The avifauna of Greece included a total of 478 species according to the Hellenic Rarities Committee of the Hellenic Ornithological Society (Ελληνική Ορνιθολογική Εταιρεία) with supplemental additions from Avibase as of May 2023.