Short-tailed Magpie

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Short-tailed Magpie
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Corvidae
Genus: Cissa
Species: C. thalassina
Binomial name
Cissa thalassina
(Temminck, 1826)

Short-tailed Magpie or Short-tailed Green Magpie (Cissa thalassina) is a passerine bird of crow family, Corvidae. It is endemic to southeast Asia. A montane forest-dwelling bird, it dwells in thick vegetation in the mid and upper storeys of forests, and makes only short flights.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Whitten, Tony and Jane (1992). Wild Indonesia: The Wildlife and Scenery of the Indonesian Archipelago. United Kingdom: New Holland, page 131. ISBN 1-85368-128-8. 


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