Maghreb Magpie (Pica mauritanica)
About the Maghreb Magpie
The Maghreb magpie (Pica mauritanica) is a species of magpie in the genus Pica found in North Africa from Morocco east to Tunisia, at altitudes from sea level up to 2,300 metres altitude. It can be distinguished from the Eurasian magpie by the patch of blue skin behind its eye, the narrower white belly, the shorter wings, and the longer tail. Maghreb magpie was first described as a species in 1845, a status retained by Richard Bowdler Sharpe in 1877 despite his reducing multiple other Pica names to synonyms of the Eurasian magpie, and by Joseph Whitaker in his 1905 The Birds of Tunisia. It was however reduced to a subspecies of the Eurasian magpie later in the 20th century.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 20 recordings for this species: 2 CC BY-NC-SA. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.
Listed as recorded in Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Asir MagpiePica asirensisrecording
- Black-billed MagpiePica hudsoniarecording
- Eurasian MagpiePica picarecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.