#1317 · 🐦 birds

Black-billed Magpie

🇳🇱 Amerikaanse Ekster ·Pica hudsonia

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Johnal Palahniuk · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Evan C · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
3. © Vitalii Khustochka · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Christopher J. Earle · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © dplawrance · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
6. © Rose Zappa · CC BY 4.0
7. Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, Denver, CO, US:© nerves · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. 98 Ave NW, Edmonton, AB, CA:© JJPG · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Lassen County, CA, USA:© Tom Rickman · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Marmot Ave, Spruce Grove, AB, CA:© emily gorda · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The black-billed magpie ( Pica hudsonia ), also known as the American magpie , is a bird in the crow family that inhabits the western half of North America, from Colorado, to southern coastal Alaska to northern California, northern Nevada, northern Arizona, northern New Mexico, central Kansas, and Nebraska. It is black and white, with black areas on the wings and tail showing iridescent hints of blue or blue-green. It is one of only four North American songbirds whose...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 45,330iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
45,330 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Joseph Sabine in 1823 (203 years ago).