Black-billed Magpie (Pica hudsonia)

Other Names (World)
Black-billed Magpie, American Black-billed Magpie

Family
Corvidae (Crows And Jays)

Size
44 - 46 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Sabine, 1823)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland, grassland, dry forest, temperate forest, grassland, shrubland, rural gardens, urban areas, pastureland, arable land.

Range (Guide)

Canada, USA.

Coastal southern Alaska (eastern from Alaska Peninsula and Shumagin Is) and south-western Canada (south-western Yukon, extreme north-western and eastern British Columbia, northern Alberta, central Saskatchewan, central Manitoba, extreme south-western Ontario) southern in western USA to north-eastern and east-central California (to Inyo County), south-central Nevada, Utah, extreme north-eastern Arizona (Apache County), northern New Mexico, western (casually also north-east) Oklahoma, central Kansas, and Nebraska (except south-east).

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2011).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (92)...)

Black-billed Magpie (Pica hudsonia) [XC535182]
by Nathan Pieplow from Swikshak Lagoon, Alaska, United States (call)

Black-billed Magpie (Pica hudsonia) [XC778435]
by Sue Riffe from Rocky Mountain National Park, CO, United States (begging call, call)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Forms a superspecies with Eurasian Magpie (Pica pica), Asir Magpie (Pica asirensis) and Yellow-billed Magpie (Pica nutalli), and often treated as conspecific with Eurasian Magpie (Pica pica) or all of those. Recent analysis of mitochondrial genome suggests that Yellow-billed Magpie (Pica nutalli) is a sister-taxon, closely related to Eurasian Magpie (Pica pica), the three exhibiting low average divergence (only 2.35%), suggesting that they may be better considered conspecific.

References
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