#1422 · 🐦 birds

Oriental Magpie

🇳🇱 Oosterse Ekster ·Pica serica

🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © 莲子 · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Zinogre · CC BY-SA 4.0
3. © FreckLes · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Amaël Borzée · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea:© 이상윤/Sangyoon Lee · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Songbei District, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China:© lrathbone · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Pyongyang, North Korea:© Amaël Borzée · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Harbin, Heilongjiang, China:© lrathbone · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. 中国北京市朝阳区:© beilan · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. 中国上海市浦东新区:© heart1963 · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The Oriental magpie or Korean magpie ( Pica sericea ), known as "kkachi" (까치) in Korean, is a species of magpie found in China and northern Indochina. It is a common symbol of the Korean identity, and has been adopted as the "official bird" of numerous South Korean cities, counties and provinces. Its distribution is not limited to the Korean Peninsula and if considered a valid species its range may extend almost to the Himalayas.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 21,803iNaturalist observations

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).