Eurasian Magpie Pica pica Scientific name definitions
- Names (47)
- Subspecies (6)
Steve Madge, David Christie, and Guy M. Kirwan
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated April 21, 2018
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated April 21, 2018
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Species names in all available languages
Language | Common name |
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Albanian | Laraska bishtgjatë |
Arabic | العقعق الأوراسي |
Armenian | Սովորական կաչաղակ |
Asturian | Pega común |
Azerbaijani | Sağsağan |
Basque | Mika arrunta |
Bulgarian | Сврака |
Catalan | Garsa eurasiàtica |
Chinese | 西方喜鵲 |
Chinese (SIM) | 欧亚喜鹊 |
Croatian | svraka |
Czech | straka obecná |
Danish | Husskade |
Dutch | Ekster |
English | Eurasian Magpie |
English (UK) | Common Magpie |
English (United States) | Eurasian Magpie |
Faroese | Skjóra |
Finnish | harakka |
French | Pie bavarde |
French (French Guiana) | Pie bavarde |
Galician | Pega rabilonga |
German | Elster |
Greek | Καρακάξα |
Hebrew | עקעק זנבתן |
Hungarian | Szarka |
Icelandic | Skjór |
Italian | Gazza |
Japanese | ユーラシアカササギ |
Latvian | Žagata |
Lithuanian | Šarka |
Mongolian | Алаг шаазгай |
Norwegian | skjære |
Persian | زاغی |
Polish | sroka |
Portuguese (Portugal) | Pega |
Romanian | Coțofană |
Russian | Сорока |
Serbian | Svraka |
Slovak | straka obyčajná |
Slovenian | Sraka |
Spanish | Urraca Común |
Spanish (Spain) | Urraca común |
Spanish (Uruguay) | Eurasian Magpie |
Swedish | skata |
Turkish | Saksağan |
Ukrainian | Сорока звичайна |
Pica pica (Linnaeus, 1758)
PROTONYM:
Corvus pica
Linnaeus, 1758. Systema Naturae ed.10 1, p.106.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Europa, restricted to Sweden by Hartert, 1903, Vog. pal. Fauna, 1, p. 19; and further restricted to Uppsala by Meinertzhagen, 1954, Birds Arabia, p. 79.
Definitions
- PICA
- pica
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UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, misspellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)