Name:Cissa chinensis
Alias:Cissa chinensis,Common Green Magpie
Outline:Songbird
Family:Passeriformes Corvidae G.Magpie
length:33-39cm
Weight:120-160g
Life:9-11years
IUCN:LC
Common Green Magpie, with 5 subspecies.
Common Green Magpie is a resident bird. It often moves alone or in pairs, and sometimes gathers in small groups of 3-5. It mainly feeds on insects such as Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera, beetles, locusts, and also eats small vertebrates. It mainly feeds on trees, but also on the ground and shrubs.
The breeding season of the blue-green magpie is from April to July. It usually nests on trees or tall shrubs, and also nests on bamboo bushes. The nest is cup-shaped, mainly made of dead branches, dead grass stems, grass leaves, roots, bamboo leaves and other materials, and is padded with fine grass roots. Each nest lays 3-7 eggs, mostly 4-5 eggs, the eggs are grayish white, white or light red, and the size is 30.2 mm × 22.9 mm.
Listed in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species in 2018 ver 3.1 - Least Concern (LC).
Listed in the List of Terrestrial Wildlife with Important Economic and Scientific Research Value under State Protection (Item 419) issued by the State Forestry Administration of China on August 1, 2000.
Listed in the second level of China's National Key Protected Wildlife List (February 5, 2021).
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