Eurasian Magpie

Pica pica

Eurasian Magpie photographed by Jess
Speke, Liverpool, England · August 10, 2026
Eurasian Magpie photographed by Jess
West Lancashire · June 30, 2026

When to look

Reported most in January, across 6.6M open records.

Records by month. January, 841,597 records. February, 522,898 records. March, 647,170 records. April, 698,563 records. May, 765,699 records. June, 484,732 records. July, 353,438 records. August, 354,228 records. September, 415,208 records. October, 503,804 records. November, 468,898 records. December, 517,130 records.

Occurrence data from GBIF (incl. the eBird Observation Dataset, © Cornell Lab of Ornithology, CC BY 4.0). Descriptive, not predictive.

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