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Oriental Magpie
Pica serica · Family Corvidae
Pica serica
Family Corvidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Corvidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 320,047
- Countries and territories with records
- 16
About this species
This species has 320,047 occurrence records from 16 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Taiwan (53.4%), China (26.2%), South Korea (15.9%) and Hong Kong (3.2%); together they account for 98.6% of the total. In Taiwan, this species accounts for 0.81% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Pica serica combines the genus name Pica with the species epithet serica. 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 hudsonia and Pica nuttalli.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 132 species of the family Corvidae. This species ranks 28th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Corvus brachyrhynchos. Its record count is 35.2% of the family average (908,707). The family Corvidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.