Oriental Magpie
Pica serica
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 14,785
- Most observed in
- 🇰🇷 South Korea
Description
The Oriental magpie (Pica serica) is a species of magpie found from southeastern Russia to eastern China, Korea, Taiwan, and northern Indochina and Myanmar. It is also naturalised in Japan. Other names include Korean magpie, Chinese magpie and Asian magpie. The scientific name serica means "silky [texture]" or "Chinese"; this is the original spelling, though sometimes erroneously "corrected" to sericea.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Oriental magpie”.