. Birds of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks . Birds; Birds. Cray Jay Danny On BLACK-BILLED MAGPIE (Pica pica) In both personality and appearance, the magpie is a distinctive bird. Noisy, intelligent and wary, the magpie is striking in appearance with its contrasting black and white plumage and long, wedge-shaped tail. Con- fined to lower elevation sagebrush-grassland habitats in Yellowstone and Grand Teton, the magpie is a scavenger which profits not only from the presence of the coyote and other predatorsv with which it frequently associates, but also from road kills of squirrels an
. Birds of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks . Birds; Birds. Cray Jay Danny On BLACK-BILLED MAGPIE (Pica pica) In both personality and appearance, the magpie is a distinctive bird. Noisy, intelligent and wary, the magpie is striking in appearance with its contrasting black and white plumage and long, wedge-shaped tail. Con- fined to lower elevation sagebrush-grassland habitats in Yellowstone and Grand Teton, the magpie is a scavenger which profits not only from the presence of the coyote and other predatorsv with which it frequently associates, but also from road kills of squirrels and other rodents by the vehicles of park visitors. The magpie spends much of its time on the ground in search of food. It walks with a jerky gait or hops on both feet. The nest of this species is usually built in a dense, thorny shrub or tree. It is a large, domed mass of sticks with entrances on each Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Follett, Dick. [United States] : Yellowstone Library and Museum Association in cooperation with National Park Service, U. S. Dept. of Interior
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