Short-tailed Magpie

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Short-tailed Magpie
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Corvidae Genus: Cissa Species: C. thalassina
Binomial name
Cissa thalassina (Temminck, 1826)

Short-tailed Magpie or Short-tailed Green Magpie (Cissa thalassina) is a passerine bird of crow family, Corvidae. It is endemic to southeast Asia. A montane forest-dwelling bird, it dwells in thick vegetation in the mid and upper storeys of forests, and makes only short flights.^[1]

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