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Eurasian magpie 2024 03 03 02🐦

Photo: Alexis Lours · CC BY 4.0

SpeciesPasseriformesCorvidae
Birds

🐦Eurasian Magpie

Pica pica (Linnaeus, 1758)

Husskaden (Pica pica) er en 46 centimeter lang kragefugl i ordenen af spurvefugle med karakteristisk sort og hvid fjerdragt, hvor halen udgør omkring halvdelen af længden. Den er udbredt i store dele af Europa og Asien og er en meget almindelig ynglefugl i Danmark. Den er altædende, men er især kendt for at tage æg og unger fra andre fugles reder.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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87
Photos
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Measurements
11
vs you
≈ 1/290th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.22 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
22 years
All measurements ↓
Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Eurasian Magpie

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.22 kg
AVONET
Other figures ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Male221 kgWikidataQ25307
  • Female191 kgWikidataQ25307

Figures vary

  • 0.18 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.24 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.19 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.04 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.05 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
22 years
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
21 days
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Omnivore
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Human Modified
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Terrestrial
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.2 Laverage
Details ↓

Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Eurasian Magpie yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPasseriformes
  5. ›familyCorvidae
  6. ›genusPica
  7. ›speciesPica pica
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. orderPerching birds · Passeriformes
  4. genusPica
All 11 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderPerching birds · Passeriformes
  11. genusPica
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Closest relative on this site
🐦‍⬛ Carrion Crow — last shared an ancestor ≈ 16 million years ago.
In other languages
Pica pica (es), ekster (nl), pie bavarde (fr), 喜鹊 (zh), sroka zwyczajna (pl), szarka (hu) … and 27 more languages
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