Eurasian magpie

The Eurasian magpie or common magpie (Pica pica) is a bird that lives in Europe, much of Asia, and northwest Africa. It is one of several birds in the crow family named as magpies.

Eurasian magpie
File:Сорока (Pica pica), Калининград.jpg
Nominate subspecies in Russia File:Eurasian Magpie (Pica pica) (W1CDR0001537 BD28).ogg Calls, recorded in England
Conservation status
File:Status iucn3.1 LC.svg Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Corvidae
Genus:	Pica
Species:	P. pica
Binomial name
Pica pica (Linnaeus, 1758)
Subspecies
See text
Global range of the Eurasian magpie and its subspecies
Synonyms
Corvus pica Linnaeus, 1758

Pica pica pica

In Europe, "magpie" is used by English speakers to call the European magpie; it is the only magpie in Europe outside the Iberian Peninsula.

Eurasian Magpie Media

• Eurasian Magpie in Turtuk Village, Ladakh.JPG

  P. p. bactriana in Ladakh

• Pica pica1.jpg

  Picapica

• Eurasian Magpie egg colour.jpeg

  A photograph to show the colour and markings on the egg of the Eurasian Magpie (Pica Pica)

• Pica pica nest in Stockholm.jpg

  Magpie nest.

• Zagʻizgʻon uyasi.jpg

  A nest made by Eurasian magpie.

• Magpie hopscotch.jpg

  Hopscotch game in England with the magpie rhyme.

• Pica pica skull.jpg

  Skull of a Eurasian magpie

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  In flight, showing the numerous brightly coloured sheens on its feathers

• Pica pica in flight cropped.jpg

  A magpie's underside visible as it prepares to land

Related pages

• General licences under the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981

Other websites

• European Magpie videos Archived 2012-12-08 at Archive.today on the Internet Bird Collection
• Avibase Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine