Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Short-tailed Magpie (Cissa thalassina)

Montane

35cm

3 comments:

Unknown said...

That's the first time I m seeing that bird, I don't know about its distribution but its a colorful fella.

Dale Forbes said...

holy cow, now that is a magpie. ours are just a rather plain black and white (although still cool).

it looks like a mix between a trogon and a mozambiquan green-headed oriole

Happy birding
Dale
http://alpinebirds.blogspot.com

lazyclick said...

Amazing snap, beautiful bird.