Pica pica Linnaeus 1758 (Eurasian magpie)

Aves - Passeriformes - Corvidae

Alternative combination: Corvus pica

Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824

Belongs to Pica according to L. Carrera et al. 2018

See also Bedetti and Pavia 2013, Boule and De Villeneuve 1927, Burchak-Abramovich and Burchak 1998, Clements et al. 2017, Linnaeus 1758, Mlikovsky 2002, Parmalee 1992 and Wetmore 1962

Sister taxa: Pica hudsonia, Pica mourerae, Pica nuttalli

Ecology: volant omnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Italy (5 collections), Monaco (1), Portugal (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (7: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Virginia, Wyoming)

Total: 17 collections each including a single occurrence

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