Red-billed Blue Magpie (Red-billed Blue Magpie) is a graceful cage bird. The body is large, the mouth and feet are red, and the tail is slender and curve very beautiful. The yellow-billed blue magpie is basically similar in appearance to the red-billed blue magpie. Except for the mouth, the yellow-billed blue magpie has a yellow mouth and only a white patch on the head. The difference is still obvious and not difficult to identify in the wild.

Chinese name: Red-billed blue magpie

Chinese alias: Chi-tailed mountain crow, long-tailed mountain magpie, long-tailed crow, Longshan magpie, mountain partridge

English name: Red-billed Blue Magpie

Binary name: Urocissa erythrorhyncha

Kingdom: Animalia

phylum: Phylum Chordata

Subphylum : Vertebrata

Class: Aves

Subclass: Neornithes

Order: Passeriformes

Family: Corvidae

Genus: Blue Magpie

Species: Red-billed Blue Magpie

Distribution : Beijing, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Henan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Hong Kong

The red-billed blue magpie is a beautiful cage bird with similar plumage in males and females. The forehead, the top of the head to the back of the neck, the side of the head, the side of the neck, the chin, the throat and the upper chest are all black, and the feathers from the top to the back of the neck have white, blue-white or purple-gray feathers, and the spots become more and more from the top of the head to the back. As it enlarges, a large plaque develops from the top of the head to the nape of the neck and sometimes even to the center of the upper back. The back, shoulders and waist are purple-blue-gray or gray-blue stained with brown, and the tail coverts are lavender-blue or light-blue-gray, with black terminal spots and white subterminal spots. The tail is long and convex. The central tail feathers are blue-gray with white terminal spots, and the rest of the tail feathers are purple-blue or blue-grey, with white terminal spots and black sub-terminal spots. The two wings are dark brown, the outer base of the primary flight feathers is purplish-blue, and the ends are white. The lower body throat and chest are black, and the rest of the lower body is white, sometimes stained with blue or yellow. The iris is orange, and the mouth and feet are red.

The male and   female birds are similar in plumage color. The body is blue-purple on the back; the tail feathers are long, especially the two central ones. The tail is white, with red mouth and red feet.

Size measurement: body weight ♂150-200g, ♀147-210g; body length ♂510-634mm, ♀524-655mm; mouth peak ♂30-40mm, ♀31-37mm; wing ♂180-204mm , ♀175-208mm; tail ♂350-454mm, ♀370-474mm; tarsal ♂40-49mm, ♀40-47mm. (Note: male—♂; female—♀)

Red-billed blue magpie is gregarious , often in pairs or in small groups of 3-5 or more than 10. Lively and noisy, often jumping up and down between branches or flying between trees, mostly in a gliding posture when flying, sliding from hill to hill, from tree to tree, or from a tree to Another tree, jumping forward. When gliding, it stretches out its wings and spreads its tail feathers. Sometimes it flies with flapping wings after a while of gliding, especially when frightened, it often struggles to agitate its wings to flee up the mountain. The cry is sharp, like a 'zha-zha-' sound.

The red-billed blue magpie is a close relative of the crow tribe. It has a diet compatible with meat and vegetables. It mainly eats insects and other animal foods, but also eats plant fruits, seeds and crops such as corn and wheat. miscellaneous. Common species of animal food include click beetles, beetles, locusts, grasshoppers, flies, katydids, crickets, beetles, lepidopteran larvae and other insects, also eat spider, snail, worm, firefly, frog, Lizards, chicks, eggs, and other small invertebrates and vertebrates. Plant foods are mainly fruits and seeds of various trees and shrubs, and occasionally eat crops such as wheat and corn.

Sometimes it also aggressively invades the nests of other birds, attacking and eating young chicks and eggs. From March to May every year is the breeding season of the red-billed blue magpie. During this period, the parent bird is very strong in protecting the nest and has a very fierce temperament. .

Like other birds, red-billed blue magpie likes to eat insects and other animal food, of course plants Fruit is also their favorite, a typical omnivorous bird, easy to feed, and important One of the ornamental birds. There are many exhibitions in various zoos, and many individuals are kept. Eat a lot of pests, so the benefits are great.

Common species of animal food include click beetles, beetles, locusts, grasshoppers, flies, katydids, crickets, beetles, lepidopteran larvae and other insects, also eat spider, snail, worm, firefly, frog, lizards, chicks, eggs and other small invertebrates and vertebrates.

Plant foods are mainly fruits and seeds of various trees and shrubs, and occasionally eat crops such as wheat and corn.