Black Magpie
Black Magpie is a huge bird similar in size of a Crow and is more closer to a Treepie than a Jay or Magpie subspecies. It can be seen in lowland forest in Malaysia, Thailand, Mynammar and Indonesia. In Peninsula I have occassionly encounter the bird in Kemensah Selangor, Krau Pahang and Hulu Langat Selangor but no good photos.
It is gregarious and move around the middle storey of trees in pairs or more. It has a straight black body with a white patch on its wings and has red eyed. Like crow they eat about anything from berries, fruits to vertebrae, carcasses of small mammals and the likes. When ever they are present other birds keep their distance.
It has a variety of calls from croaking, chattering and hollow howling and crowing calls. For its size, it is a shy bird maybe hunted by the aborigines here as food.
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