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Weight ranges from roughly 180 to 270 grams. Plumage is boldly patterned in black and white: a black head, breast, and back contrast sharply with pure white shoulder patches and belly, while the wings and long tail show a striking iridescent blue-green sheen produced by the microscopic structure of the feathers rather than pigment.",[15,33,34],{},"The unmistakable silhouette — compact body, long tail, and strongly rounded wings — combined with a distinctive, somewhat clumsy, bounding flight low over the ground makes the magpie one of the easiest corvids to identify at a glance, even at a considerable distance.",[10,36,38],{"id":37},"range-and-habitat","Range and habitat",[15,40,41,42,45],{},"The Eurasian magpie has an enormous range spanning most of Europe, much of Asia, and parts of northwestern Africa, occurring across nearly all of Russia except the high Arctic and the most densely forested taiga interior. 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