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Parent Red-billed Blue Magpies feeds their chicks. The Red-billed Blue Magpie (Urocissa erythrorhyncha) is a species of bird in the crow family Corvidae. It is about the same size as the European Magpie but has a much longer tail. The head, neck and breast are black with a bluish spotting on the crown. The shoulders and rump are a duller blue and the underparts are a greyish cream. The long tail is a brighter blue (as are the wing primaries) with a broad white tip. The bill isa bright orange-red as are the legs and feet and a ring around the eye. This red can vary across its range to almost yellow in some birds. It occurs in a broad swathe from the western Himalayas, eastwards into China and Vietnam in evergreen forest and scrub in predominantly hilly or mountainous country. Food is sought
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