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Eurasian Magpie (Iberian)

Pica pica melanotos

Classification

Class
Aves
Family
Corvidae

The Maghreb magpie (Pica mauritanica) is a species of magpie in the genus Pica found in North Africa from Morocco east to Tunisia, at altitudes from sea level up to 2,300 metres altitude. It can be distinguished from the Eurasian magpie by the patch of blue skin behind its eye, the narrower white belly, the shorter wings, and the longer tail. Taxonomy Maghreb magpie was first described as a species in 1845, a status retained by Richard Bowdler Sharpe in 1877 despite his reducing multiple other Pica names to synonyms of the Eurasian magpie, and by Joseph Whitaker in his 1905 The Birds of…

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Portugal · 53Denmark · 1