Yellow-billed Blue Magpie

It was dreamy watching them glide from one location to other as they open their wings and especially tail feathers as they get wide open and that view is so amazing. Sadly (very sadly) I could not get time to wait for photographing them as I wanted but still could get this record shot as a souvenir from that trip.
I have seen them moving around in a group and very rarely I have seen a solo bird. Again dawn and dusk were the times when these were very active and very rarely in the afternoon they can be seen in the agricultural fields hopping around.

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Ferdy Christant

Lion

Even if the dream did not come true, one day it may, and this is still a great post and shot.
Pssst....don't forget to set the location, please. Posted 3 years ago
1. abhitap
  
  Lion
  
  Thanks for appreciation ferdy and also for reminding me about not tagging the location ;-p Posted 3 years ago
2. 1. Ferdy Christant
    
    Lion
    
    No worries, and thanks for the update! Here's a quick way to see which of your photos are not mapped yet:
    https://www.jungledragon.com/user/1843/unmapped Posted 3 years ago
  2. 1. abhitap
      
      Lion
      
      Wow! thanks for the link and I had 3 posts yet to be geotagged! Well, came across my leaf bird post and I cant believe I posted them here 4 years ago and also the interesting comment section where you struggled finding the bird ;-p Posted 3 years ago
    2. 1. Ferdy Christant
        
        Lion
        
        3 missing out of 163 total is not a bad score. It's a great score and now you've made it perfect.
        
        Can't recall the thread you mean because now that you've mapped them, they're gone from that link :) Posted 3 years ago

The yellow-billed blue magpie

The yellow-billed blue magpie or gold-billed magpie is a passerine bird in the crow and jay family, Corvidae. It forms a superspecies with the Taiwan blue magpie and the red-billed blue magpie. The species ranges across the northern parts of the Indian Subcontinent including the lower Himalayas, with a disjunct population in Vietnam.

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Similar species: Passerines

Species identified by abhitap