magpie

A bird of the crow family (13 species); especially the black-billed magpie (Pica pica). The name is also used for black-and-white birds in the families Cracticidae (the bell/black-backed/white-backed magpie), Anatidae (the magpie goose), Estrildidae (the magpie mannikin), Grallinidae (the magpie lark), Sturnidae (the magpie starling), Thraupidae (the magpie tanager), and Turdidae (the magpie robin).

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European Magpie
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Corvidae
Genera
Pica Urocissa Cissa Cyanopica

The magpies are medium to large, often colorful and noisy passerine birds of the crow family, Corvidae. For example, the Eurasian Magpie seems more closely related to the Eurasian Jay than to the Oriental Blue and Green Magpies, whereas the Blue Jay is not closely related to either.

In Europe, "Magpie" is often used as a synonym for the European Magpie, as there are no other magpies in Europe outside Iberia.

Holarctic (black-and-white) magpies

Genus Pica European Magpie, Pica pica American Black-billed Magpie, Pica hudsonia (may be conspecific with P. pica)

Oriental (blue/green) magpies

Genus Urocissa Formosan Blue Magpie Urocissa caerulea Red-billed Blue Magpie, Urocissa erythrorhyncha Gold-billed Magpie, Urocissa flavirostris White-winged Magpie, Urocissa whiteheadi Sri Lanka Blue Magpie, Urocissa ornata Genus Cissa Green Magpie, Cissa chinensis Yellow-breasted Magpie, Cissa hypoleuca Short-tailed Magpie, Cissa thalassina

Azure-winged Magpie

Genus Cyanopica Azure-winged Magpie, Cyanopica cyana

The Black Magpie, Platysmurus leucopterus, despite its name, is neither a magpie nor, as was long believed, a jay, but a treepie.

The Australian Magpie Gymnorhina tibicen is conspicuously piebald black and white feathers reminding of an European Magpie, but it is not corvid at all.