Yellow-billed Blue Magpie

Urocissa flavirostris (Blyth, 1846)

Yellow-billed Blue Magpie, Urocissa flavirostris, is a passerine of the Corvidae family in the Himalayas. It was described by Blyth in 1846. It is a resident bird of the Oriental Region, with its breeding range in the Himalayan belt. The species is part of the blue magpie group and is found across the northern Indian subcontinent, including the lower Himalayan foothills, with a separate population in Vietnam. It is also known as the gold-billed magpie.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Corvidae — Crows, Jays

Breeding range

Oriental Region: Himalayas