Crows (Corvidae)
Red-billed Blue Magpie (Urocissa erythroryncha) - HBW 14, p. 596
French: Pirolle à bec rouge
German: Rotschnabelkitta
Spanish: Urraca Piquirroja
Other common names: Blue/Red-billed Magpie
Taxonomy: Corvus erythrorynchus Boddaert, 1783, Canton (Guangzhou) south China.
Genus has sometimes been subsumed in Cissa, but three members of latter seem to form a distinctive group. Present species forms a superspecies with U. caerulea and U. flavirostris. Race alticola initially described under name "caerulea", but this name is invalid, as preoccupied. Species name often misspelt "erythrorhyncha". Five subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- occipitalis ( Blyth, 1846) - NW India (from Jammu and vicinity of Kangra, in Himachal Pradesh) E to extreme E Nepal.
- magnirostris ( Blyth, 1846) - NE India (S of R Brahmaputra) E across Myanmar and Thailand to NW Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.
- alticola Birckhead, 1938 - S China (NW & N Yunnan) and adjacent N Myanmar.
- occipitalis ( Blyth, 1846) - NW India (from Jammu and vicinity of Kangra, in Himachal Pradesh) E to extreme E Nepal.
- magnirostris ( Blyth, 1846) - NE India (S of R Brahmaputra) E across Myanmar and Thailand to NW Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.
- alticola Birckhead, 1938 - S China (NW & N Yunnan) and adjacent N Myanmar.
- brevivexilla Swinhoe, 1874 - E China (from SE Inner Mongolia and W Liaoning S to S Gansu, S Ningxia, Shanxi and Hebei).
- erythroryncha ( Boddaert, 1783) - C, S & SE China (including Hainan).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird perched on a branch. Locality Phu Khieo Wildlife Sanctuary, Chaiyaphum Province, North Eastern Thailand, Thailand
Yoel Jimenez 4 February 2012 1 year ago 13 sec 4.3 -
A bird on a branch, later three birds in a tree feeding on vigs. Locality Phu Khieo Wildlife Sanctuary, Chaiyaphum Province, North Eastern Thailand, Thailand
Yoel Jimenez 3 February 2010 3 years ago 29 sec 4.1 -
Two birds in a three feeding on vigs. Locality Phu Khieo Wildlife Sanctuary, Chaiyaphum Province, North Eastern Thailand, Thailand
Yoel Jimenez 3 February 2010 3 years ago 33 sec 4 -
A close view of a bird perched, then changing of branch. Locality Beidaihe, Hebei, China (Northern) (Monotypic species)
Eldert Groenewoud 2 May 2008 4 years ago 36 sec 3.8 -
A bird on a branch, turning around and flying away. Locality Beidaihe, Hebei, China (Northern) (Monotypic species)
Eldert Groenewoud 2 May 2008 4 years ago 26 sec 3.8 -
Red-billed Blue Magpie, lateral view. Locality Beidaihe, Hebei, China (Northern)
Mark Andrews 20 May 2010 2 years ago 11 sec 3.7
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in- flight
Locality China (Northern)
Bob Thompson 5 April 2010 3 years ago 4.3 -
Male - perched on a tree branch
Locality Hong Kong
Blair Wainman 29 August 2010 2 years ago 4.1 -
Feeding in a tree
Locality Chong Yen, Mae Wong National Park, North Western Thailand, Thailand
John A Thompson 12 January 2013 16 weeks ago 4 -
Visible on the roadside looking for food
Locality Nainital, Nainital District, Uttarakhand, India
Lee Hunter 17 December 2011 22 weeks ago 4 -
Two Red-billed Blue Magpie struggled for the fish
Locality Shing Mun Valley Park, Hong Kong
Terence S K LAI 12 December 2011 1 year ago 4 -
A bathing Red-billed Blue Magpie
Locality Shing Mun Valley Park, Hong Kong
Terence S K LAI 26 April 2011 2 years ago 4
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A perched individual calls; then it flies to another half-hidden behind a shrub, and the sounds of both birds are heard
Locality Birdland Park & Gardens, Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England, Great Britain
Joe Angseesing 6 November 2012 8 weeks ago 5 -
Perched, Singing
Locality Birdland Park & Gardens, Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England, Great Britain
Joe Angseesing 24 June 2009 10 weeks ago 5 -
A bird giving calls Locality Wilhelma, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Michael C 1 January 2008 3 years ago 2
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