With a black helmet inlaid with white feathers, it wears an emerald cloak - Red-billed Blue Magpie
(国家二级保护动物)
(Second-Grade State Protection Animal)
红嘴蓝鹊(拉丁学名:Urocissa erythroryncha)是大型鸦类,体长54-65厘米,嘴、脚红色,头、颈、喉和胸黑色,头顶至后颈有一块白色至淡蓝白色或紫灰色块斑,其余上体紫蓝灰色或淡蓝灰褐色,尾长呈凸状具黑色亚端斑和白色端斑,下体白色。黄嘴蓝鹊外形和羽色和该种非常相似,但黄嘴蓝鹊嘴为黄色,头部仅枕有白色块斑,区别仍很明显,野外不难识别, 能发出多种不同的嘈吵叫声和哨声,常见并广泛分布于林缘地带、灌丛甚至村庄。性喧闹,结小群活动。以果实、小型鸟类及卵、昆虫为食,常在地面取食。
Red-billed Blue Magpie (Scientific Latin Name: Urocissa erythroryncha), a large bird of the family Crow, is 54-65 cm long, with red on the mouth and feet and black on the head, neck, throat and chest. There is a white to a pale blue-white or purplish gray patch from the top of the head to the back of the neck, and the rest of the upper body purplish blue gray or pale blue gray. The long tail is convex with black subterminal spots and white spots. The lower body is white. The appearance and plumage of the yellow-billed blue magpie are very similar to that of this species, but the yellow-billed blue magpie has a yellow beak, and the head only has white patches. Their differences are clear, so it is not hard to identify them in the wild. It produces a variety of noisy calls and whistles, which are common and widely distributed in forest margins, shrublands and even villages. It likes noisy and lives in small groups. It has been often observed to look for fruits, small birds and their eggs, and insects on the ground.