Black-billed magpie / Hudsonelster (Pica hudsonia)

Wikipedia: Black-billed magpie Source: WIKIPEDIA 1200px-Black-billed_magpie_-_Alberta_June_16%2C_2013.JPG

Observations

🔍 No documented observation

Description

Classification: Genus Magpies (Pica); Family Corvidae (Corvidae)
General: The black-billed magpie (Pica hudsonia), also known as the American magpie, is a bird in the corvidae family that inhabits the western half of North America, from Colorado, to southern coastal Alaska, to Central Oregon, to northern California, northern Nevada, northern Arizona, northern New Mexico, central Kansas, and Nebraska. In Canada it is found in far Western Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, and Yukon. It is black and white, with black areas on the wings and tail showing iridescent hints of blue or blue-green. It is one of only four North American songbirds whose tail makes up half or more of the total body length (the others being the yellow-billed magpie, the scissor-tailed flycatcher, and the fork-tailed flycatcher). [more]