Sri Lanka blue magpie (Urocissa ornata)

Query: Pica pica

Result: 189^th of 195

Subject:	Sri Lanka blue magpie (Urocissa ornata)
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Cissa pyrrhocyanea = Urocissa ornata

Date between 1850 and 1883
Source John Gould, 1804-1881; Richard Bowdler Sharpe, 1847-1909: Birds of Asia., Volume V, London
Author John Gould (1804–1881) & Henry Constantine Richter (1821–1902)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BirdsAsiaJohnGoVGoul_0220.jpg

The Sri Lanka blue magpie or Ceylon magpie (Urocissa ornata) is a brightly coloured member of the Corvidae family and found exclusively in Sri Lanka. Urocissa ornata is adapted to hunting in the dense canopy, where it is highly active and nimble.

Order: Passeriformes
Family: Corvidae
Genus: Urocissa
Species: Urocissa ornata (Wagler, 1829)
Synonym: Pica ornata Wagler, 1829

Pica pica
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