Pica [pica or serica] (Eurasian or Oriental Magpie)

Eurasian or Oriental Magpie

Pica [pica or serica] (= Pica pica) (Linnaeus, C 1758)

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Classification

Order:
  Passeriformes
Family:
  Corvidae
Genus:
   Pica
Scientific:
  Pica pica

Original description

Citation:
(Linnaeus, C 1758)

Reference:
Systema Naturae ed. 10 1 p.106

Protonym:
Corvus pica

Type locality:
Europa, restricted to Sweden by Hartert, 1903, Vog. pal. Fauna, 1, p. 19; and further restricted to Uppsala by Meinertzhagen, 1954, Birds Arabia, p. 79.

Link:
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10277#page/124/mode/1up

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
A6DE85CD5ABCB3F0

Avibase ID:
avibase-A6DE85CD

Short link:
https://avibase.ca/A6DE85CD

Taxonomic Serial Number:
TSN: 179720

Geographic range:

Pica pica [pica or galliae]: Europe from the British Isles, France, and southern Scandinavia to eastern Europe and Türkiye
Pica pica fennorum: northern Scandinavia and western Russia
Pica pica [bactriana or hemileucoptera]: western and southern Siberia (east to Lake Baikal) and central Asia, southward to the Caucasus region and eastward to Pakistan and northwestern India
Pica pica leucoptera: southern Transbaikalia to eastern Mongolia and Altai Mountains
Pica pica melanotos: Iberian Peninsula
Pica pica camtschatica: northern shores of Sea of Okhotsk to Kamchatka Peninsula
Pica serica: southeastern Russia, northeastern China, and Korea southward through eastern China, Taiwan, and Hainan to northern Myanmar, northern Laos, and northern Vietnam
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Source: Clements checklist

English:
Eurasian or Oriental Magpie
German:
Orientelster/Elster
Spanish:
Urraca Oriental/Común
Spanish (Spain):
Urraca oriental/común
French:
Pie bavarde ou P. orientale
Japanese:
カササギ/ユーラシアカササギ
Polish:
sroka chińska/sroka
Portuguese (Portugal):
pega-oriental/pega-rabuda
Russian:
Китайская сорока/Сорока
Slovak:
straka čínska/obyčajná
Serbian:
Svraka/azijska svraka
Swedish:
orientskata/skata
Chinese:
喜鹊/欧亚喜鹊

Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:

Avibase taxonomic concepts (current): Eurasian or Oriental Magpie ( Pica [pica or serica])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2023 (May 2023): Eurasian or Oriental Magpie ( Pica [pica or serica])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2024 (Oct 2024): Eurasian or Oriental Magpie ( Pica [pica or serica])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020): Eurasian or Oriental Magpie ( Pica [pica or serica])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 08 (Feb 2021): Eurasian or Oriental Magpie ( Pica [pica or serica])
eBird version 2018: Oriental/Eurasian Magpie ( Pica serica/pica)
eBird version 2019: Oriental/Eurasian Magpie ( Pica serica/pica)
eBird version 2021: Oriental/Eurasian Magpie ( Pica serica/pica)
eBird version 2022: Oriental/Eurasian Magpie ( Pica serica/pica)
eBird version 2023: Oriental/Eurasian Magpie ( Pica serica/pica)
eBird version 2024: Oriental/Eurasian Magpie ( Pica serica/pica)

Taxonomic status:

Species status: species group (sometimes a species)

This taxon is a subspecies of Pica [pica, bottanensis or serica]

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Other synonyms

See also the taxonomic synonyms table.

Afrikaans: Ekster
Arabic: عقعق
Asturian: Pega
Azerbaijani: Sağsağan
Belarusian: Сарока
Bulgarian: Сврака
Breton: Ar big
Catalan: Garsa
Catalan (Balears): Garsa
Valencian: Gaig
Czech: straka obecná
Chuvash: Чакак
Welsh: Pioden
Danish: Husskade
German: Elster, Orientelster/Elster
Greek: (Κοινή) Καρακάξα, Ανατολική/Ευρασιατική Καρακάξα
Greek (Cypriot): Κατσικορώνα
Emiliano-romagnolo: Argaza
English: Eurasian or Oriental Magpie, Oriental/Eurasian Magpie
English (United Kingdom): Oriental/Common Magpie
English, HBW: Eurasian Magpie (Oriental/Eurasian)
English (India): Eurasian Magpie (Black-billed Magpie)
English (IOC): Oriental/Eurasian Magpie
English (United States): Oriental/Eurasian Magpie
Esperanto: pigo
Spanish: Urraca Común, Urraca Oriental/Común
Spanish (Spain): Urraca Común, Urraca oriental/común
Estonian: Harakas
Basque: Mika
Persian: زاغی
Finnish: harakka
Faroese: Skjóra
French: Pie bavarde, Pie bavarde ou P. orientale
Friulian: Badascule
Frisian: ekster
Irish: Snag Breac
Gaelic: Cadhag
Galician: pega
Manx: Pieanat
Hebrew: עקעק
Croatian: Svraka
Hungarian: szarka
Armenian: Սովորական կաչաղակ
Icelandic: Skjór
Italian: Gazza comune europea
Japanese (romaji): Kasasagi
Japanese: カササギ, カササギ/ユーラシアカササギ
Japanese (Kanji): 勝ち烏
Georgian: კაჭკაჭი
Khakas: Саасхан
Kazakh: Сауысқан
Kazakh (Transliteration): sawısqan
Korean: 까치
Korean (Transliteration): kkachi
Cornish: Pyasen
Scientific: Corvus Pica, Pica [pica or serica], Pica pica, Pica pica pica, Pica serica/pica
Luxembourgish: Kréi
Ladin: Gacia
Lithuanian: Šarka
Latvian: Žagata
Macedonian: Страчка
Mongolian: Алаг шаазгай
Mongolian (Bichig): ᠠᠯᠠᠭ ᠱᠠᠭᠠᠵᠠᠭᠠᠢ
Mongolian (Bichig, Inner Mongolia): ᠱᠠᠭᠠᠵᠠᠭᠠᠢ
Mongolian (Transliteration): alag shaazgai
Maltese: Kakarachi
Dutch: Ekster
Norwegian: Skjære
Napoletano-calabrese: Ciavula
Occitan: Gag
Polish: sroka (zwyczajna), sroka chińska/sroka
Pinyin: gān què
Portuguese: pega
Portuguese (Portugal): Pega, pega-oriental/pega-rabuda
Romansh: Giazla
Romanian: Coțofană
Russian: Китайская сорока/Сорока, Сорока
Sardinian: Piga
Scots: Cadhag
Northern Sami: Skire
Slovak: straka čínska/obyčajná, straka obyčajná
Slovenian: sraka
Albanian: Laraska bishtgjatë
Serbian: svraka, Svraka/azijska svraka
Swedish: orientskata/skata, skata
Thai: นกสาลิกาปากดำ
Thai (Transliteration): nók kaaŋ-kʰĕen
Turkmen: saksağan
Turkish: Çin saksağanı/Saksağan, Saksağan
Tuvinian: Сааскан
Ukrainian: Сорока звичайна
Vietnamese: Ác là
Sorbian, Lower: Kabeja
Sorbian, Upper: Škrěkawa
Chinese: 喜鹊, 喜鹊/欧亚喜鹊
Chinese (Traditional): 喜鵲
Chinese (Taiwan, Traditional): 喜鵲
Chinese (Taiwan): 喜鹊