The red-billed blue magpie is a protected animal, a national second-class protected animal. Red-billed blue magpies are large crows with a body length of 54-65 centimeters. The beak and feet are red, the head, neck, throat and chest are black, and there is a white to light blue-white or purplish-gray patch from the top of the head to the back of the neck, and the rest of the upper body is purplish-blue-gray or light bluish-gray-brown.

The red-billed blue magpie has a long convex tail with black subterminal and white terminal spots. The lower body is white. The yellow-billed blue magpie is very similar in appearance and plumage coloration to this species, but the yellow-billed blue magpie has a yellow beak and only a white patch on the head.

Habits of the Red-billed Blue Magpie.

The red-billed blue magpie mainly inhabits different types of forests in mountainous areas, such as evergreen broad-leaved forests, coniferous forests, mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forests, and secondary forests, and it is also found in bamboo forests, open forests at the edge of forests, and trees near the villages and on the edges of the land. The altitude ranges from the foothill plains and low hills to the highland mountains of about 3500 meters.