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Black-billed Magpie
Pica hudsonia · Family Corvidae
Pica hudsonia
Family Corvidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Corvidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 2,685,271
- Countries and territories with records
- 10
About this species
This species has 2,685,271 occurrence records from 10 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (71.3%) and Canada (28.7%); together they account for 99.9% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.17% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Pica hudsonia combines the genus name Pica with the species epithet hudsonia. The Warbla app catalog lists 7 species of the genus Pica; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Pica pica, Pica serica and Pica nuttalli.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 132 species of the family Corvidae. This species ranks 12th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Corvus brachyrhynchos. Its record count is 3 times the family average (908,707). The family Corvidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.