Red-billed Blue Magpie

How to identify

Field marks

1. Bill bright orange-red; legs and feet orange-red; red ring around the eye
2. Head, neck and breast black, with a blue patch on the crown
3. Long tail purple-blue with a broad white tip
4. Scapulars and rump dark purple-blue

Voice

Calls are varied; the most often heard are grating trills and high-pitched, flute-like whistles.

Where and when it's recorded

Busiest months: February–March and December · Most records: China, India, Nepal

Red-billed Blue Magpie has been recorded at 199 of the 8,276 birding hotspots we track, in 8 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. SattalIndia1,454 records
2. Mai Po Nature ReserveHong Kong (China)1,157 records
3. TmatboeyCambodia865 records

Countries and regions with the most records

ChinaIndiaNepalThailandCambodiaSingaporeLaosMalaysia

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

The red-billed blue magpie (Urocissa erythroryncha) is a species of bird (magpie) in the crow family, Corvidae. It is about the same size as the Eurasian magpie, but has a much longer tail, one of the longest of any corvid. It is 65–68 cm (25.5–27 in) long and weighs 196–232 g (6.9–8.2 oz).

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