The azure-winged magpie (Cyanotic cyan’s) is a bird in the crow family. It is similar in overall shape to the Eurasian magpie (Pica pica) but is a little more slender with proportionately smaller legs and bill. It belongs to the genus Cyanopica.
The Azure-winged Magpie occurs in a large region of eastern Asia in most of China, Korea, Japan, and north into Mongolia and southern Siberia.
The Azure-winged Magpie has a glossy black top to the head and a white throat. The underparts and the back are a light grey-fawn in color with the wings and the feathers of the long tail an azure blue.
The voice is a quick fired and metallic sounding kwink-kwink-kwink usually preceded by a single krarrah.
The Azure-winged Magpie usually nests in loose, open colonies with a single nest in each tree. There are usually 6–8 eggs that are incubated for 15 days.
Their diet consists mainly of acorns (oak seeds) and pine nuts, extensively supplemented by invertebrates and their larvae, soft fruits and berries, and also human-provided scraps in parks and towns.
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