Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #RedBeaks, any bird with Red on its beak. Here is a magnificent Red-billed Blue-Magpie from the Olympic Forest Park in Beijing, China. This photo is from the archives. #bird #birdphotography #redbilledbluemagpie #birdsofbeijing

Red-billed Blue-magpie lives in forests and large gardens from northern India to eastern China and down to Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. #nepal #nature #birding #bird #birds #redbilledbluemagpie

Red-billed Blue Magpie eats insects, fruit, frogs, lizards, eggs, nestlings of other birds. Caches food. Is a crow with a 17-inch tail and no apologies.

Nature is wild and this bird is fine with that.

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Day 7: conservation.

Red-billed Blue Magpie is Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. Stable. Adaptable. Fine.

Full week on one of the most beautiful corvids on the planet, and it ends with good news.

That is a pretty good way to wrap a week.

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Day 6: nesting.

Red-billed Blue Magpie nests on wooded hillsides, 5-6 eggs, and both parents share incubation and feeding.

Cooperative parenting. Calling it out specifically because in birds it is not automatic.

Good bird. Good partner.

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Day 5: voice.

Red-billed Blue Magpie is very loud and kind of harsh-sounding. Also a mimic that copies other birds' alarm calls.

So: gorgeous to look at, chaotic to listen to, and actively messing with the neighbors.

Very corvid of them.

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Day 3: the Red-billed Blue Magpie hops the forest floor with its 17-inch tail cocked high, digging for bugs while traveling with mixed flocks purely for practical reasons.

Smart, gorgeous, and under no impression that cooperation means friendship.

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Red-billed Blue Magpie lives in mountain forests from the Himalayas across Southern Asia. 3,000 to 6,000 feet. Moves lower in winter, back up in spring.

Seasonal altitude adjustments like a very colorful migratory professional.

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Starting a week on the Red-billed Blue Magpie today.

Day 1: a 17-inch tail, brilliant blue plumage, and a coral red bill.

It is a crow. An extremely well-dressed crow.

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