Oriental Magpie (Pica serica)
About the Oriental Magpie
The Oriental magpie (Pica serica) is a species of magpie found from southeastern Russia to eastern China, Korea, Taiwan, and northern Indochina and Myanmar. It is also naturalised in Japan. Other names include Korean magpie, Chinese magpie and Asian magpie. The scientific name serica means "silky [texture]" or "Chinese"; this is the original spelling, though sometimes erroneously "corrected" to sericea.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 99 recordings for this species: 50 CC BY-NC-SA · 14 CC BY-NC-ND. 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 China, Mongolia, Russia, South Korea 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.