Yellow-billed Magpie - Behaviour

Behaviour

The Yellow-billed Magpie is gregarious and roosts communally. There may be a cluster of communal roosts in one general area made up of a central roost containing many birds and several outlying roosts with fewer.

Yellow-billed Magpie flocks are known to engage in funeral-like behavior for their dead.

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