Pica (bird)
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Pica is a genus of seven species of birds in the family Corvidae in both the New World and the Old. It is one of several corvid genera whose members are known as magpies. Pica have long tails and pred
Pica pica Helsinki, Finland 8a
The geographically highly isolated magpie on Kamchatka, Pica pica camtschatica, with extensive white in its primaries, was recovered as sister to the rest of Pica pica by Kryukov et al., but was only weakly differentiated in Song et al.'s study. The east Siberian P. p. leucoptera has nearly as much white in the primaries.
Maghreb Magpie, Morocco
Korean magpie in Daejeon
Corvidae
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Corvidae is a cosmopolitan family of oscine passerine birds that contains the crows, ravens, rooks, magpies, jackdaws, jays, treepies, choughs, and nutcrackers. In colloquial terms, the crow family is
Pica (bird)
…Pica is a genus of seven species of birds in the family Corvidae in both the New World and the Old. It is one of several corvid genera whose members are known as magpies. Pica have long tails and predominantly black…
Carrion crow head
Skeleton of (Corvus brachyrhynchos) at the Museum of Osteology
Corvids are highly opportunistic foragers. Here, a forest raven feeds on a Tasmanian nativehen hit by a car.
A Canada jay pair feeding their chicks.