Asian Azure-winged Magpie

Order - Passeriformes 雀形目
Family - Corvidae 鸦科 (Crows)
Genus - Cyanopica 灰喜鹊属

Asian Azure-winged Magpie

Cyanopica cyanus

灰喜鹊

   Taxonomy update for 2013

Azure-winged Magpie (Cyanopica cyanus) is split into two species, 
with highly disjunct ranges: Iberian Magpie is restricted to Spain 
and Portugal while Azure-winged Magpie occurs in east Asia. :

- Iberian Magpie (Cyanopica cooki)
- Asian Azure-winged Magpie (Cyanopica cyanus)

    Size : 36–38 cm; Male 80–118 g, Female 76–112 g

             

    Subspecies and Distribution

• Cyanopica cyanus cyanus (Pallas, 1776)
  – N Mongolia (E from Uliastay) E across Transbaikalia and S Yakutia to SE Russia (Amurland and Ussuriland), S to NE China (Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning) and Korean Peninsula, also C & E China (NE Qinghai, W Gansu and NW Sichuan E to Hebei and Shandong).
• Cyanopica cyanus japonica (Parrot, 1905)
  – C Japan (N & C Honshu; formerly also Shikoku and Kyushu).
• Cyanopica cyanus swinhoei (E. J. O. Hartert, 1903)
  – EC & E China (N & C Sichuan E to Jiangxi and Zhejiang).

Date : 24 March 2014

米埔自然保护区, 元朗区, 新界, 香港

Mai Po Nature Reserve, Yuen Long District, New Territories, Hong Kong

Date : 24 March 2014

米埔自然保护区, 元朗区, 新界, 香港

Mai Po Nature Reserve, Yuen Long District, New Territories, Hong Kong

Date : 24 March 2014

米埔自然保护区, 元朗区, 新界, 香港

Mai Po Nature Reserve, Yuen Long District, New Territories, Hong Kong