Formosan Blue Magpie defeated Mikado Pheasant and was chosen as Taiwan's national bird, though it has yet to be formally accepted.

Black-billed Magpies are familiar and entertaining birds of western North America. Formosan Blue Magpie is about the size of European Magpie, but with a longer tail. Magpie, any of several long-tailed birds belonging to the family Corvidae (order Passeriformes).

The legs and bill are red. The red-billed blue magpie occurs in a broad swathe from the northern parts of the Indian Subcontinent, and further eastwards. It is 64-65 centimetres in length. Description blue magpies speaks about the many similarities of this bird with the usual magpie.

The adults are blue with chestnut head and wings, and a long white-tipped tail. Looking at photos of the blue magpies, it becomes clear that special decoration of a bird is its gorgeous plumage, which gleams and glows with azure paints the background of a Sunny day. Description.

They sit on fenceposts and road signs or flap across rangelands, their white wing patches flashing and their very long tails trailing behind them. The young bird is a duller version of the adult. They sit on fenceposts and road signs or flap across rangelands, their white wing patches flashing and their very long tails trailing behind them. This large, flashy relative of jays and crows is a social creature, gathering in numbers to feed at carrion. Black-billed Magpies are familiar and entertaining birds of western North America. This large, flashy relative of jays and crows is a social creature, gathering in numbers to feed at carrion. The red-billed blue magpie (Urocissa erythroryncha) is a species of bird in the crow family, Corvidae.It is about the same size as the Eurasian magpie but has a much longer tail, one of the longest tails of any corvid. Only her limbs somewhat shorter and less beak. The Sri Lanka blue magpie is about the same size as the European magpie at 42–47 cm.