Magpie

Magpie (pica pica) occupies all Europe in the moderate belt and Asia down to Kamchatka, Northwest Africa and the west of Northern America. Ordinary magpies are settled birds. It lives in small woods, parks, gardens, groves, coppices and nearby from human habitation; it avoids a dense wood. Magpies are sociable birds, seldom meeting one by one; often it can be seen in flocks from two-five birds flying from a tree on a tree with loud chirring. After nesting, in the autumn and winter these birds gather in flocks on some hundreds of individuals. It is usual for Belarus. Magpie prefers the open landscapes with small thickets of trees and bushes among fields, young small coppices in the humidified territories with an impurity of a birch and an alder (sometimes suburbs of coniferous woods), and also groups of trees near to river valleys and meadows. Less often - suburbs of settlements near to the humidified territories.