Cyanopica is a small genus of magpies in the family Corvidae. They belong to a common lineage with the genus Perisoreus.
The genus Cyanopica was introduced in 1850 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte. The type species was designated by George Gray in 1855 as Corvus cyanus Pallas, 1766, the azure-winged magpie. The generic name is derived from the Latin words cyanos, meaning "lapis lazuli", and pica, meaning "magpie".
Species The genus contains two species:
Image Scientific name Common name Distribution Cyanopica cyanus Azure-winged magpie eastern Asia in most of China, Korea, Japan, and north into Mongolia and southern Siberia Cyanopica cooki Iberian magpie southwestern and central parts of the Iberian Peninsula, in Spain and Portugal
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