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Pica hudsonia
Black-billed Magpies are slightly larger than jays with much longer, diamond-shaped tails and heavier bills. In flight, their wings seem to be too short to support their graceful flight. These birds are black and white overall with blue-green iridescent flashes in the wing and tail. The upperparts are mostly black with a white patch in the outer wing and two white stripes (“backpack straps”) on the back.
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Thanks all! This one was using it's beak as a shovel and digging through the snow to get down to the grassy roots and seed pods!
Nice, have never seen them in snow!
Beautiful, Em!!
Beautiful bird, such clean lines.