Yellow (Gold)-billed Blue Magpie Pictures and Detail (Urocissa flavirostris)
Yellow (Gold |
Yellow (Gold) -billed Blue Magpie Pictures and Detail (Urocissa flavirostris)
This bird made me wait and travel lot to take its pictures, though, after following it for three months, I succeeded in getting few of pictures of Yellow or Gold-billed Blue Magpie. First, I got attracted to this because of its noisy calls.
[Update 26/04/15 - During my present visit to my native village in Himachal, a yellow-billed magpie become my friend and he started following me where ever I was going with my camera. I too enjoyed his company and clicked many of his pictures.
Pair of Yellow-billed Magpie |
Red-billed Magpie |
Red-Billed Blue Magpie |
Yellow-billed Blue Magpie mostly appears in small groups in the search of food and they create lots of noise. In my native village in Himachal, people do not like Gold-billed Blue Magpie because they eat lots of fruit crops, though, I fell in love with them with just a first glimpse.
Gold-billed Blue Magpie |
Yellow-billed Blue Magpie is a bird of the crow and jay family known as Corvidae. These birds are also called Gold-billed Blue Magpie and their scientific name is Urocissa flavirostris. This bird also has two subspecies. This bird is mainly found in northern parts of the Indian subcontinent in the foothills.
The most beautiful things of Gold-billed Blue Magpie is its long tail which is more than 60% of its total length. Never in my life, I saw such a beautiful long tail of a bird before.
Beautiful tail Yello Billed Blue Magpie |
Lower side of Tail Gold-billed Blue Magpie |
The sexes of this bird are alike. They have a black colored neck, breast and head with a small white patch on the upper neck. Their stomach is creamy white and blue wings with white lines.
Gold-billed blue magpie mainly eats insects, eggs of other birds, small mammals, fruits and nuts. These are very active birds and their flights look very beautiful because of their long tail. The mostly remaining in the group; therefore, when you spot a single Yellow-billed Blue Magpie, then you can be assured of a few others around.
Gold-billed Blue Magpie from back |
The best ways to find these birds is to recognize their loud and noisy calls. Due to these noisy calls, you immediately come to know about their location.
Yellow-billed Magpie |
Yellow (Gold) Billed Magpie |
[01/05/15] Friendly Nature of Magpie Birds- On some research, I found that all magpie species of birds are very friendly in nature and there are many examples, where they love to live with humans or come very close to them. I also noticed that Yellow-billed Magpie recognized me and it recognizes all other people who constantly live around him. They come close to people from whom they don't feel any threat. If anyone we nice to a Yellow (Gold
Overall, these are great birds which make our environment very attractive. My next aim is to capture of some of pictures of flights of Yellow-billed Blue Magpie.
All Pics by Arvind
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