Crows (Corvidae)
Sri Lanka Blue Magpie (Urocissa ornata) - HBW 14, p. 595
French: Pirolle de Ceylan
German: Schmuckkitta
Spanish: Urraca Cingalesa
Other common names: Ceylon Blue Magpie, Ceylon/Sri Lanka Magpie
Taxonomy: Pica ornata Wagler, 1829, "India orientali" = Sri Lanka.
Genus has sometimes been subsumed in Cissa, but three members of latter seem to form a distinctive group; present species perhaps links the two genera. Monotypic.
Distribution: SW Sri Lanka.
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A bird preening. Locality Sinharaja Forest Reserve, Sri Lanka (Monotypic species)
herve jacob 21 November 2012 8 weeks ago 28 sec 4.3 -
Several close views of birds, some of them ringed, feeding on bisquits. Locality Sinharaja Forest Reserve, Sri Lanka (Monotypic species)
Pieter de Groot Boersma 1 July 2007 3 years ago 20 sec 4.3 -
Several views of several birds, coming for pieces of bisquits. Locality Sinharaja Forest Reserve, Sri Lanka (Monotypic species)
Pieter de Groot Boersma 1 July 2007 3 years ago 31 sec 4.2 -
A bird on a branch. Locality Sinharaja Forest Reserve, Sri Lanka (Monotypic species)
herve jacob 20 November 2012 8 weeks ago 24 sec 4 -
A ringed bird changing of place and looking around curiously. Locality Sinharaja Forest Reserve, Sri Lanka (Monotypic species)
Eldert Groenewoud 23 October 2008 4 years ago 33 sec 3.7 -
Several views of birds, some of them feeding pieces of bisquits. Locality Sinharaja Forest Reserve, Sri Lanka (Monotypic species)
Pieter de Groot Boersma 1 July 2007 3 years ago 32 sec 3.5
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With a moth just captured.
Locality Sinharaja Forest Reserve, Sri Lanka (Monotypic species)
Fran Trabalon 4 January 2012 1 year ago 4.6 -
Sitting on the ground
Locality Sinharaja Forest Reserve, Sri Lanka
John A Thompson 24 March 2012 1 year ago 4.2 -
A perched adult bird.
Locality Sinharaja Forest Reserve, Sri Lanka (Monotypic species)
Steve Garvie 26 July 2009 3 years ago 4.2 -
Perched in a tree
Locality Sinharaja Forest Reserve, Sri Lanka
John A Thompson 24 March 2012 1 year ago 4 -
On a branch
Locality Sinharaja Forest Reserve, Sri Lanka
Guy Poisson 8 January 2011 2 years ago 3.7 -
Dorsal view of an individual perched in a tree.
Locality Sinharaja Forest Reserve, Sri Lanka (Monotypic species)
James Eaton 1 December 2007 15 weeks ago 3.6
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calling birds Locality Sinharaja Forest Reserve, Sri Lanka
Desmond Allen 7 September 1996 3 years ago 3.5
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