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The Yellow-billed blue magpie (Urocissa flavirostris) belongs to the family Corvidae under the order Passeriformes.
Yellow-billed blue magpie taxonomy
The Corvidae is the family of crows, ravens, rooks, jackdaws, jays, magpies and treepies.The family Corvidae was first introduced by William Elford Leach, MD, FRS (2 February 1791 – 25 August 1836), an English zoologist and marine biologist, in a guide to the contents of the British Museum published in 1820.
The family Corvidae comprises six subfamilies, including Cissinae. The subfamily Cissinae comprises genus Urocissa and genus Cissa.
The genus Urocissa was first described by Jean Louis Cabanis (8 March 1816 – 20 February 1906), a German ornithologist, in the year 1850.
The genus Urocissa comprises five species, viz., Urocissa caerulea, Urocissa erythroryncha, Urocissa flavirostris, Urocissa whiteheadi and Urocissa ornata.
The species Urocissa flavirostris was first described by Edward Blyth (23 December 1810 – 27 December 1873), an English zoologist, in the year 1846
| Taxonomic classification | |
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| Binomial name: | Urocissa flavirostris |
| Species: | U. flavirostris |
| Genus: | Urocissa |
| Subfamily: | - |
| Family: | Corvidae |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Class: | Aves |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
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| 1.Yellow-billed blue magpie - Urocissa flavirostris Photo by Lip Kee |
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| 2.Yellow-billed blue magpie - Urocissa flavirostris Photo by Dibyendu Ash |
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| 3.Yellow-billed blue magpie - Urocissa flavirostris Photo by Rakesh Kumar Dogra |
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| 4.Yellow-billed blue magpie - Urocissa flavirostris Photo by Abhishek532 |
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| 5.Yellow-billed blue magpie - Urocissa flavirostris Photo by Dr. Raju Kasambe |
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| 6.Yellow-billed blue magpie - Urocissa flavirostris Photo by Vaibhav Dautkhani |
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| 7.Yellow-billed blue magpie - Urocissa flavirostris Photo by J.M.Garg |
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| 8.Yellow-billed blue magpie - Urocissa flavirostris Photo by Dr. Raju Kasambe |
1.Photo source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/lipkee/32187154163/in/photostream/ (cropped)
Author: Lip Kee | License: CC BY-SA 2.0 as on 7/15/18
2.Photo source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Yellow-billed_Blue_Magpie_Dugalbitta_Chopta_Uttarakhand_India_13.06.2013.jpg (cropped)
Author: Dibyendu Ash | License: CC BY-SA 3.0 as on 7/15/18
3.Photo source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/rakeshkdogra/3251129784/ (cropped)
Author: Rakesh Kumar Dogra | License: CC BY 2.0 as on 7/15/18
4.Photo source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abhishek532_YellowBilledBlueMagpie.jpg (cropped)
Author: Abhishek532 | License: CC BY-SA 4.0 as on 7/15/18
5.Photo source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/ (cropped)
Author: Dr. Raju Kasambe | License: CC BY-SA 4.0 as on 7/15/18
6.Photo source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/ (cropped)
Author: Vaibhav Dautkhani | License: CC BY-SA 4.0 as on 7/15/18
7.Photo source: https://en.wikipedia.org/ (cropped)
Author: J.M.Garg | License: CC BY-SA 3.0 as on 7/15/18
8.Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/ (cropped)
Author: Dr. Raju Kasambe | License: CC BY-SA 4.0 as on 7/15/18
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