Taiwan blue magpie | 台北市立動物園資訊網

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The Taiwan blue magpie[2] (Urocissa caerulea), also called the Taiwan magpie, Formosan blue magpie (Chinese: 臺灣藍鵲; pinyin: Táiwān lán què), or the "long-tailed mountain lady" (Chinese: 長尾山娘; pinyin: Chángwěi shānniáng; Taiwanese Hokkien: Tn̂g-boé soaⁿ-niû), is a bird species in the crow family. It is endemic to Taiwan.

The Taiwan blue magpie was collected by Robert Swinhoe and described by John Gould.[3] Swinhoe translated the magpies Hokkien name into English, calling it the "Long-tailed Mountain-Nymph".[4] The species is sometimes placed in the genus Cissa. It forms a superspecies with the yellow-billed blue magpie (Urocissa flavirostris) and the red-billed blue magpie (Urocissa erythroryncha). The species is monotypic.[5]

The Taiwan blue magpie is endemic to Taiwan. I...