Profile
In flight
Clever Corvids
Red-billed Blue-Magpie
Urocissa erythroryncha
- epic
- 65 km/h
- Least Concern
Almost two-thirds tail, all bravado, sweeping through hill forests in noisy gangs. The coral-red bill carries grapes off the temple offerings.
- Population
- widespread and conspicuous across the Himalaya and East Asia
- Habitat
- hill forest, gardens, scrubby foothills, woodland edge
- Diet
- fruit, large insects, eggs, nestlings, carrion, scraps
- Size
- 0.65 m
- Wingspan
- 0.42 m
