Yellow Billed Blue Magpie

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super pencil work

Beautiful work Pratim.

Your bird paintings are truly beautiful, Pratim.

Superb illustration and a highly intelligent description, Pratim.

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PAKHI DEKHUN PAKHI CHINUN # 706(Observe the Bird and recognize)..YELLOW BILLED BLUE MAGPIE ...[From a Photograph of Dr Rahul Bhagwat ?? ????? ?????] ... Coloured Pencil ...A4...2016... The yellow-billed blue magpie or gold-billed magpie (Urocissa flavirostris) is a passerine bird in the crow and jay family, Corvidae. It forms a superspecies with the Taiwan blue magpie and the red-billed blue magpie. The species ranges across the northern parts of the Indian Subcontinent including the lower Himalayas, with a disjunct population in Vietnam. Length 66 cm (26 in), including tail of about 46 cm (18 in). Sexes alike. Head, neck, and breast black, with a white patch on the nape; remainder of lower plumage white, faintly tinged with lilac; whole upper plumage purplish-blue, brighter on the wings and tail; flight-feathers tipped with white, the outermost edged with the same; tail long and graduated, the feathers blue, broadly tipped with white, all except the very long central pair having a ban