English: Black-billed Magpie, Eurasian Magpie, White-rumped Magpie    
Russian: Сорока 
Mongolian: Алаг шаазгай, Шаазгай 
German: Elster  
French: Pie bavarde   
Japanese: カササギ (Kasasagi)

Body length: 40-51 cm
Wing span: 52-60 cm

Resident breeder
Breeding season: May-August

Egg number: 5-8 (occasionally 10)
Egg colour: Greenish-blue with olive and grey spots, speckles, blotches.
Brood:  1 per year

Global status: Least concern
Regional status: Least concern

Food: Invertebrates, eggs and chicks of birds, small mammals and carrion.

Habitat: Builds its well constructed nest in trees such as willow, elm, birch, poplar and rarely scattered pine and larch trees in variety of different habitats, with coniferous, deciduous, mixed forests, planted trees in high mountains, mountain forest, and forest steppe mountain steppe and river valleys.