Stats

Lifespan

10-15 yrs

Size

Medium

Diet

Omnivore

Activity

Diurnal

Social

Pair

Biome

Temperate forest

Range

East Asia

Movement

Flight

Breeding

Egg-laying

Defense

Speed

Status

Uncommon

About

The Oriental Magpie's tail grows longer than its own body and shimmers with iridescent blue-green — a silhouette so distinctive it became the national bird of South Korea in 1964. A corvid of remarkable intelligence, it appears throughout East Asian folklore as a harbinger of good fortune.

Life cycle

1. 1.
   egg

   A small clutch of speckled eggs is incubated in a cup nest, turned and kept warm by the parent.
2. 2.
   hatchling

   A pink, blind hatchling is fed by its parents in the nest, gaping its bill at every visit.
3. 3.
   juvenile

   A feathered juvenile fledges from the nest, learning to fly and to forage close to its parents.
4. 4.
   adult

   Fully grown with adult plumage and song.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Corvidae

Genus

Pica

Species

Pica serica