An unusually long-tailed black-and-white ... birds in the south average smaller and tend to show bare dark grayish skin below eye (similar in shape to the yellow skin on yellow-billed magpie).

Habitat and Location: Lark buntings live in open grasslands ... Identification: The black-billed magpie is a stunning bird featuring black and white bodies and bluish-green iridescent wings ...

Adult magpies have glossy black-and-white ... magpie's call is a harsh mechanical chakk-kackk-kackk. Their song is more musical with high squeaks. They are noisy when alarmed — such when a cat ...