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 LC    Gold-billed Magpie* Id (Atlas):
    Urocissa flavirostris

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Yellow-billed Blue Magpie, Gold-billed Magpie, Golden-billed Magpie, Black-headed Magpie, Golden-billed Blue Magpie, Yellow-billed Blue-Magpie

Family
Corvidae (Crows And Jays)

Size
61 - 66 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Blyth, 1846)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical montane moist forest. From 1,600 - 2,700 m, occasionally 1,000 - 3,700 m.

Range (Guide)
Bhutan, China (mainland), India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Vietnam.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2020) and stable.

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (56)...)

 
Yellow-billed Blue Magpie (Urocissa flavirostris) [XC810731]
     by Greg Irving from near Mangengoth, Helambu region, Nepal (call, song)

 
Yellow-billed Blue Magpie (Urocissa flavirostris) [XC810722]
     by Marc Anderson from near Mangengoth, Helambu region, Nepal (call)

Subspecies
Genus has sometimes been subsumed in Cissa, but three members of latter seem to form a distinctive group. Forms a superspecies with Taiwan Blue Magpie (Urocissa caerulea) and Blue Magpie (Urocissa erythroryncha). Subspecies cucullata intergrades with nominate in central Nepal.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

  • cucullata Gould, 1861   -  Northern Pakistan (from Hazara) east through north-western India to Nepal.
  • flavirostris (Blyth, 1846)   -  Nepal east to north-eastern India and northern Myanmar, also in adjacent southern China (extreme south-eastern Xizang).
  • schaeferi Sick, 1939   -  Western Myanmar (Chin Hills).
  • robini Delacour & Jabouille, 1930   -  Extreme northern Vietnam (north-western Tonkin).



References
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Files:
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