black-billed magpies are easily seen. They hop and walk on the ground with a swaggering and confident gait. Monotypic. Length 19". An unusually long-tailed black-and-white corvid with a black bill.

He told other news outlets that the white magpie was with three other black-and-white magpies and that the other birds seemed to accept "their differently feathered friend," as the four of them ...