Black-billed Magpie
Pica hudsonia
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 29,606
- Most observed in
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The black-billed magpie, also known as the American magpie, is a bird in the corvid family found in the western half of North America. It is black and white, with the wings and tail showing black areas and iridescent hints of blue and blue-green. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of Pica pica, but was separated as a species in its own in 2000 based on genetic studies.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Black-billed magpie”.