Yellow-billed Magpies are large black-and-white songbirds with a long dark tail as well as bright yellow around their bill and eye. Juveniles are similar to adults, but are less iridescent and have a brownish wash on their head and back.

References cited in Species Profile

• Cornell Lab of Ornithology. 2015. Yellow-billed Magpie. All About Birds. http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Yellow-billed_Magpie/id
• Crosbie, S.P., L.E. Souza, and H.B. Ernest. 2014. Abundance and distribution of the Yellow-billed Magpie. Western Birds 45:100-111.
• Koenig, Walt and Mark D. Reynolds. 2009. Yellow-billed Magpie (Pica nuttalli), The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North America Online: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/180
• Partners in Flight. 2012. Species Assessment Database. http://rmbo.org/pifassessment/Database.aspx
• Verbeek, N. A. M. 1970. The exploitation system of the Yellow-billed Magpie. Phd Thesis. Univ. of California, Berkeley.