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Eurasian Magpie
Pica pica · Family Corvidae
Pica pica
Family Corvidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Corvidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 8,172,219
- Countries and territories with records
- 102
About this species
This species has 8,172,219 occurrence records from 102 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United Kingdom (16%), France (13.2%), Sweden (11.8%), the Netherlands (11%) and Spain (8.5%); together they account for 60.6% of the total. In the United Kingdom, this species accounts for 2.1% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Pica pica combines the genus name Pica with the species epithet pica. The Warbla app catalog lists 7 species of the genus Pica; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Pica hudsonia, Pica serica and Pica nuttalli.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 132 species of the family Corvidae. This species ranks 4th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Corvus brachyrhynchos. Its record count is 9 times the family average (908,707). The family Corvidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.