While monotypic, birds in the south average smaller and tend to show bare dark grayish skin below eye (similar in shape to the yellow skin on yellow-billed magpie). Black bill and range ...

Identification: The black-billed magpie is a stunning bird featuring black and white bodies and bluish-green iridescent wings and tails. They are relatively large birds (belonging to the corvid ...

black rails, Hutton’s vireo, a short-billed gull and a hooded oriole. Christensen also noted the sighting of a yellow-billed magpie, one of only two endemic California birds, “and the only ...