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SpeciesPasseriformesCorvidae
Birds

🐦‍⬛Black-billed Magpie

Pica hudsonia (Sabine, 1823)

La urraca de Hudson (Pica hudsonia),​​ es una especie de ave paseriforme de la familia Corvidae que habita en el oeste de América del Norte, desde el sur de la costa de Alaska hasta las Montañas Rocosas en el norte de California, el norte de Arizona, el norte de Nuevo México, el centro de Kansas y Nebraska. Anteriormente se consideraba una subespecie de la urraca común (Pica pica).

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≈ 1/350th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.18 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
20 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Black-billed Magpie

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

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

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

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

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

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

Maximum lifespan
20 years
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data quality: acceptable

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

Gestation
18 days
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data quality: acceptable

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

Litter size
about 7
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data quality: acceptable

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

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

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

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

Volume l
0.2 Laverage
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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 Black-billed Magpie yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPasseriformes
  5. ›familyCorvidae
  6. ›genusPica
  7. ›speciesPica hudsonia
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. orderPerching birds · Passeriformes
  4. genusPica
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  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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Garsa de bec negre (ca), straka americká (cs), Hudsonskade (da), Hudsonelster (de), Pica hudsonia (es), amerikanharakka (fi) … and 19 more languages
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