
Green-Magpies
Cissa
Cissa is a genus of relatively short-tailed magpies, though sometimes known as hunting cissas, that reside in the forests of tropical and subtropical southeast Asia and adjacent regions. The four species are quite similar with bright red bills, a mainly green plumage, black mask, and rufous wings. Due to excess exposure to sunlight (and, possibly, a low-carotenoid diet), they often appear rather turquoise (instead of green) in captivity. They are carnivorous, and mainly feed on arthropods...
4 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 4 known species

Common Green-Magpie
speciesCissa chinensis

Bornean Green-Magpie
speciesCissa jefferyi

Indochinese Green-Magpie
speciesCissa hypoleuca

Javan Green-Magpie
speciesCissa thalassina
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 8507.

