#yellow-billed blue-magpie

[birdstudies]

September 9, 2024 - Yellow-billed Blue-magpie or Gold-billed Magpie (Urocissa flavirostris) These magpies are found in and around forests in Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, and Vietnam, mainly along the Himalayan foothills. Foraging in pairs or groups of up to twelve, they feed on invertebrates, small vertebrates, eggs, fruits, and berries. Pairs build cup-shaped nests from sticks and twigs and line them with roots and plant fibers. Females probably incubate the eggs alone while males bring them food. Both parents feed the chicks.

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Eventually this 15-critter commission will all be hanging together from string but for now they have to sit for photos

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Yellow-billed Blue Magpie in Kareri, Himachal Pradesh, India

Rimjhim Agrawal

Scientific name: Urocissa flavirostris

Conservation status: Least Concern (Population stable) 

Family: Corvidae

Genus: Urocissa

Order: Passeriformes

Phylum: Chordata

Countries Found: China, India, Bhutan, Myanmar, Nepal, Vietnam, Pakistan

Interesting Facts:

Magpies are members of the corvid family along with crows, jays, nutcrackers and ravens. All corvids are known for their high intelligence.

Like parrots, magpies have the ability to mimic. In human care, a magpie may be trained to imitate the human voice and “talk”.

Magpies will steal food from other predators! They will even enter a campsite, enter a tent, and steal food!

Magpies are attracted to shiny objects and like to collect them and keep them hidden in their nests. A study showed that they steal over $215 million in coins every year.

Why They Matter:

Insect Control - Magpies eat many different types of insects, including grasshoppers, ants, bees, beetles, bugs, flies, and spiders.

Magpies eat dead animals, garbage, and roadkill.

[datubooty]

popular bird media set west of the rockies when…

[birdsbeauty12]

6: Yellow-Billed Blue Magpie:💥

The yellow-billed blue magpie or gold-billed magpie is a passerine bird in the crow and jay family, Corvidae. It forms a superspecies with the Taiwan blue magpie and the red-billed blue magpie.

[herpsandbirds]

Yellow-billed Blue Magpie (Urocissa flavirostris), family Corvidae, Pakistan

Photograph by Zahran CR

[snoof-is-a-bug-enjoyer]

i ran more with the harpy upgrade idea i had awhile back, so have the rest of the alpha one team as harpies

if you cant read cursive here are each bird species used for all of them

stringer- black billed magpie

stormer- snowy owl

bulk- harpy eagle

surge- blue macaw

breez- red crowned parrot

rocka- golden eagle

evo- yellow crowned euphonia

nex- sun conure

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Duplicate Submissions

Alright, here is the list of duplicate birds that were submitted to this poll:

American Robin, Canada Goose, Dovekie, Eurasian Jay, Hoatzin, Blue-bellied Roller, Smew, Hoopoe, Dark-eyed Junco, Painted Bunting, Spoon-billed Sandpiper, Rifleman (Titipoumano), Archeopterix, Hooded Crow, Roseate Spoonbill, Northern Lapwing, European Starling, Steller's Jay, Great Auk, Eclectus Parrot, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Spotted Towhee, Resplendent Quetzal, Vermilion Flycatcher, Kaua'i O'o, Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Hooded Pitohui, Rainbow Bee-eater, Long-tailed Tit (Shima Enaga), Sunbittern, Varied Thrush, Pied Currawong, Rock Pigeon, Domestic Chicken, Northern Gannet, Diederik Cuckoo, Yellow-headed Picathartes, Temminck's Tragopan, Greater Lophorina, Parotia, Grey Butcherbird, Green Jay, Horned Screamer, Magnificent Frigatebird, Spinifex Pigeon, Gorgeted Puffleg, Zebra Dove, Common House Martin, Swordbill Hummingbird, Greater Roadrunner, Rufous-crested Coquette, Wallcreeper, Racket-tailed Roller, Himalayan Monal, Crested Pigeon, Inaccessible Island Rail, Brown Creeper, Tufted Titmouse, White Wagtail, Bobolink, Shoebill Stork, Australian Brushturkey, black-throated magpie-jay, Greater Blue-eared Starling, spangled cotinga

This list will continue to be updated, but I'm not going to pin it to the top since technically these guys are not the focus of the poll (I just think they're neat :3). The tag placed on pics of these birds is ELIMINATED, as someone asked about tagging them and I figured out how to use the Mass Post Editor >:3

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List of Birds organized by Order + locations:

Accipitriformes:

Bearded vulture

Cooper's hawk

Osprey

Red-shouldered hawk

Steller's sea eagle

Anseriformes:

Bar-headed goose

Barnacle goose

Black swan

Common merganser

Red-breasted goose

Snow goose

Trumpeter swan

Apodiformes:

Common swift

Ruby-throated hummingbird

Bucerotiformes:

Eurasian hoopoe

Cariamiformes:

Red-legged seriema

Casuariiformes:

Emu

Southern cassowary

Cathartiformes:

Black vulture

Turkey vulture

Charadriiformes:

American oystercatcher

Atlantic puffin

Black-headed gull

Black skimmer

Black-tailed godwit

European herring gull

Killdeer

Northern lapwing

Ruddy turnstone

Ciconiiformes:

White stork

Columbiformes:

Common wood pigeon

Eurasian collared dove

Luzon bleeding-heart

Nicobar pigeon

Victoria crowned pigeon

Coraciiformes:

Blue-capped kingfisher

Common kingfisher

Cuculiformes:

Asian koel

Greater roadrunner

Yellow-billed cuckoo

Eurypygiformes:

Kagu

Falconiformes:

American kestrel

Common kestrel

Galliformes:

Palawan peacock-pheasant

Western capercaillie

Gaviiformes:

Common loon

Gruiformes:

American coot

Australasian swamphen/pūkeko

Blue crane

Common moorhen

Sandhill crane

Sora

Whooping crane

Passeriformes:

American bushtit

American robin

Australian raven

Baltimore oriole

Barn swallow

Black-billed magpie

Black-capped chickadee

Black-throated sparrow

Blue-headed vireo

Blue jay

Bluethroat

Brown thrasher

California towhee

Canada warbler

Canyon wren

Cedar waxwing

Common blackbird

Common chlorospingus

Common raven

Eastern wood pewee

Eurasian blue tit

Eurasian bullfinch

Eurasian golden oriole

Eurasian jay

Eurasian magpie

European robin

Goldcrest

Great-tailed grackle

Great tit

Hooded crow

House sparrow

Indigo bunting

Kirtland's warbler

LeConte's sparrow

Long-tailed tit

Mexican jay

Painted bunting

Phainopepla

Pine siskin

Pin-tailed whydah

Pinyon jay

Pygmy nuthatch

Red winged blackbird

Rook

Saltmarsh sparrow

Satin bowerbird

Spotted towhee

Steller's jay

Tufted titmouse

Wallcreeper

Warbling vireo

Western tanager

White-breasted nuthatch

White-throated dipper

White-throated magpie-jay

Yellow-rumped warbler

Pelecaniformes:

Brown pelican

Great blue heron

Great egret

Great white pelican

Least bittern

Roseate spoonbill

Shoebill stork

Snowy egret

Phoenicopteriformes:

American flamingo

Chilean flamingo

Piciformes:

Acorn woodpecker

Clark's nutcracker

Lewis's woodpecker

Northern flicker

Pileated woodpecker

Red-bellied woodpecker

Red-headed woodpecker

Podargiformes:

Tawny frogmouth

Podicipediformes:

Pied-billed grebe

Procellariiformes:

Wilson's storm-petrel

Psittaciformes:

Australian king parrot

Chestnut-fronted macaw

Citron-crested cockatoo

Cockatiel

Galah

Gang-gang cockatoo

Pacific parrotlet

Rose-ringed parakeet

Sulphur-crested cockatoo

Strigiformes:

Barn owl

Barred owl

Suliformes:

Anhinga

Blue-footed booby

Double-crested cormorant

Trogoniformes:

Elegant trogon

Locations:

Africa

America

Antarctica

Asia

Australia

Central America

Eurasia

Europe

North America

Oceania

South America

[minecraftrelatedrandomness]

summary of scott's aviary birds (as of 7th sept 2023):

2 scarlet macaws

2 american pelicans

2 greater flamingos

4 mute swans

3 belted kingfishers

2 barn owls

5 keel-billed toucans (he got the 1 egg 4 birds thing)

4 yellow budgies

2 blue jays

2 southern brown kiwis

2 blue-footed boobies

2 grey crowned cranes

2 great blue herons

2 southern cassowaries

TOTAL: 36 birds… and counting…

NOT INCLUSIVE OF: 2 eurasian magpies (i.e. the chat magpies)

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yellow-billed magpie spirited/otherspirit flag!

yellow-billed magpie spirited/otherspirit flag-

[Image ID: A flag with seven equally-sized horizontal stripes. From top to bottom, the colors are grey, pastel yellow, white, royal blue, white, sky blue, and grey. In the center of the flag, there is a black symbol. It is an outer black ring with a black square ring inside it and a black 8-pointed star inside that. End ID.]

flag by me, requested by @opaline-entropy ! tagging @radiomogai and @kin-flags !

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🦚Send in a number + Character and I'll draw them in an outfit based on that bird🦚

Allen's Hummingbird

African Crowned Crane

African Emerald Cuckoo

American Goldfinch

Anna's Hummingbird

Asian Emerald Cuckoo

Asian Koel

Atlantic Puffin

Azure Kingfisher

Bald Eagle

Barn Owl

Barn Swallow

Barred Owl

Bat Falcon

Bearded Vulture

Bee Hummingbird

Black Swan

Blue-And-Yellow Macaw

Blue Crowned Pigeon

Blue-Footed Booby

Blue Jay

Bohemian Waxwing

Brahma Chicken

Broad-Billed Hummingbird

Bronze Fallow Cockatie

Canadian Goose

Cassowary

Cardinal

Common Raven

Coua

Dusky Lory

Diederik Cuckoo

Eastern Brown Pelican

Egret

Emerald Starling

Emperor Penguin

Emu

Eurasian Hoopoe

Eurasian Magpie

European Starling

European Turtle Dove

Flamingo

Frigatebird

Fruit Dove

Galah

Gambel's Quail

Golden-Breasted Starling

Golden Pheasant

Gouldian Finch

Grandala

Great Hornbill

Great Horned Owl

Greater Blue-Eared Starling

Green-Legged Partridge

Gurney’s Pitta

Hawaiian Honeycreepers

Hoatzin

Hooded Crow

Horned Sungem

Hyacinth Macaw

Kadaknath

Kakapo

Keel-Billed Toucan

Lilac-Breasted Roller

Long Tailed Tit

Luzon Bleeding-Heart Dove

Mandarin Duck

Mountain Bluebird

Montezuma quail

Mute Swan

Nicobar Pigeon

Northern Oriole

Painted Bunting

Paradise Tanager

Peafowl (peacock/peahen)

Peregrine Falcon

Pileated Woodpecker

Pink Cockatoo

Rainbow Lorikeet

Red Crested Turaco

Red-Necked Tanager

Resplendent Quetzal

Ribbon-Tailed Astrapia

Ruby-Throated Hummingbird

Scarlet Macaw

Secretary Bird

Snowy Owl

Stork-Billed Kingfisher

Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo

Superb Bird-Of-Paradise

Superb Starling

Victoria Crowned Pigeon

Violetear

Violet-Backed Starling

Violet-Green Swallow

Wood Duck

Wilson's Bird-Of-Paradise

Yellow-Crowned Woodpecker

Yellow-Faced Myna

Zanzibar Red Bishop

[practically-an-x-man]

Your ocs as birds

ooooh this is gonna make me think! thank you!!

gonna put these under the cut since I'll have pictures and explanations for each of these

Okay well obvious first: Kestrel is literally an American kestrel. Like, that's literally what I based their character on (both physically and in their characteristics), they're a shapeshifter and a kestrel is their main form, it's the whole point. I love these funky lil raptors

Next, her name might be Robin, but she's a canary. They're known for being able to sing two songs at once, which reminds me of her ability. Her story also makes me think of miner's canaries - fully ready to sacrifice herself to save others' lives... but some miners carried resuscitation devices to save the canaries because they got so attached to the birds :) Also, not all canaries are yellow!

I feel like Rae would be a mute swan. They're supposed to be a symbol of grace, but they're actually deceptively territorial and love to start fights. And they mate for life! If that's not Rae, I don't know what is.

Jasper is a mandarin duck! They're super bright and colorful, which I think suits Jasper well, and they're one of a few species of birds known to change sex from female to male. And while the Mandarin duck isn't known particularly to display same-sex mating tendencies, several other species of ducks are.

Ophelia is a cassowary for sure. They're big, strong, super fiesty, and they're a species of flightless bird (which in my eyes could represent Ophelia being a superhero without powers of her own, like a bird can't fly). Plus, one of her signature clothing pieces is a navy blue long coat, and the cassowary's feathers reminded me of that.

Indigo is an Iranian ground jay. For one thing, their coloration reminded me of her hair, especially with the white stripes on the wings. For another, jays are corvids, so they're very clever birds, but they're not often recognized as corvids since people usually associate the word with crows, ravens, and magpies (i.e. Indigo being very strong and smart of her own right, but rarely being noticed). And as a ground jay, she's "underfoot".

With all the focus on Ancient Egyptian culture and mythology, Katherine has to be an African sacred ibis. They represented Thoth, the god of knowledge and wisdom, and while Katherine herself is more connected to Bastet than Thoth, the connection to Egyptian mythology as a whole means this is absolutely her bird. (though an honorable mention to sun conures, since she keeps them as pets in the fic)

I know I said Prometheus is a phoenix in (Farewell) Wanderlust (and I still stick to the decision that the Corinthian is a barn owl), but I figured I'd pick a real-life bird here just for fun. This was a tough decision, but I went with a slender-billed crow. For one thing, there's a Lenape legend about Rainbow Crow bringing fire to humans and having his feathers burnt black, which reminded me of the legend of Prometheus and his fire in the Greek myths. Crows also form family groups and are even known to hold funerals for their loved ones, which made me think of Prometheus' endless care and compassion for their dreamers. Crows are also linked to Morpheus, and bonus... slender-billed crows are Passerine birds, and we both know Passerine is a total Prometheus song :)

I also struggled a bit with Quinn. On the one hand, I wanted to make her a loon, since they're excellent diving and swimming birds but are physically incapable of walking because of where their legs are positioned (great in their own element, but with disabilities outside it). On the other hand, I wanted to make them a mockingbird, partially for their sharp wit and partially because of their skill with disguises. But in the end, I decided to make her a flamingo: super bright and flashy, almost to the point of being a joke, but shockingly resilient to anything they come across (I mean, look it up, flamingos can survive all kinds of temperature, salinity, acidity, you name it. They're hot pink TANKS)

And finally, I know I've compared Madison to a goose in Smoke and Mirrors for her protective nature, and I debated making her a Major Mitchell's cockatoo for their coloration (thank you Odel), but I ended up settling on a red-chested goshawk. Goshawks are VERY protective birds - they can and will attack anyone or anything that gets too close to their young. They're strictly monogamous birds and actually put a lot of care into raising their young. They're strong hunters and are said to be adaptable to their habitat.

thank you for the ask!! this was a lot of fun to think about!

[dansnaturepictures]

09/06/2023-Lakeside and home 

Pictures taken today in this set are of: 1. Some of the many dog roses and other roses enjoyed again today, a wealth of colour. 2, 4, 6, 8 and 9. Views on a sunny and scorching day, the weather really showed in the landscape I thought with brown grass and bright green vegetation. 3. Dazzling grass vetchling. 5. Some of a fair bit of bramble flower I enjoyed today. 7. Meadow crane’s-bill shining in the sunlight. 10. A Large Skipper I was thrilled to see again this evening. 

Two of my favourite birds the Buzzard at lunch time and Jay this evening were Lakeside bird highlights today, alongside seeing and hearing Song Thrush, Blackbird, Swift, Moorhen, Great Tit including hearing the pleasing trills and possibly seeing young and hearing Ring-necked Parakeet. It was a delight to follow a great number of Meadow Browns on the walks today, summer gems of the grass and harbingers of the season. Common Blue butterfly seen well, Emperor dragonfly, I believe a Black-tailed Skimmer dragonfly nearly flying into the adult Great Crested Grebes I saw with chicks as a post I did about this specifically today just now mentions and of course in a strong few weeks I’ve had for seeing them Swollen-thighed beetle were other insect highlights. Deliciously coloured alsike clover, a strong summer flower beautiful purple knapweed, yellow rattle, bird’s-foot trefoil, bird vetch, oxeye daisies, viper’s-bugloss, ragwort growing in a dry area by the steam railway station another heatwave image of the day, red valerian, hogweed, nightshade, dock, plantain and bird vetch were plant highlights. A gang of Woodpigeons on the roof out the back at one point, Collared Dove and Magpie together at one point with Magpie seen on the green out the front tonight too and Goldfinches were highlights at home today. 

My post about the Great Crested Grebes today: https://dansnaturepictures.tumblr.com/post/719674601461956608/09062023-great-crested-grebe-chicks-at-lakeside