Korean Name : Magpie Egg (katsi-ahl)
English Name : (Black-billed) Korean Magpie Egg
Family : Corvidae (Crow Family)

Photo. by Byong-Oh Won
Scanned by Jinsuk Kim (mailto:jskim@bioinfo.kordic.re.kr)

Description in Korean
까치 알
까마귀과
사진: 원병오, 한국의 조류, 1993, 교학사
스캔: 김진숙

Korean Magpie Pica pica sericea is currently considered a subspecies of the European Magpie found in East Asia. It is a common symbol of the Korean identity, and has been adopted as the "official bird" of numerous South Korean cities, counties and provinces. Compared to the European Magpie, it has a markedly shorter tail and a longer wing in relation to each other, and the back and tail show strong purple and hardly any green iridescence.