Common Green Magpie

The common green magpie is a crow-family bird roughly the size of the Eurasian jay or slightly smaller. In the wild it is a bright, lush green, lighter below, which often fades to turquoise in captivity or on a poor diet because the pigment is carotenoid-based. A thick black stripe runs from the bill through the eyes to the nape, the wings are reddish-maroon, and the eye rims, bill and legs are red (Wikipedia, general species account).

It is found from the lower Himalaya in north-eastern India in a broad south-easterly band to central Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra and north-western Borneo. It seeks food both on the ground and in the canopy, taking a very high percentage of animal prey. Usually four to six eggs are laid, in a nest built in trees, large shrubs or tangles of climbing vines. SoIB 2023 rates it a Low conservation priority, a resident forest bird that is an omnivore, with a Moderate range of about 98,200 km² (Wikipedia, general species account; SoIB 2023).