Editing Azure-winged magpie (section)

==Behaviour and ecology==

Often azure-winged magpies find food as a family group or several groups making flocks of up to 70 birds. The largest groups congregate after the breeding season and throughout the winter months. Their diet consists mainly of [[acorn]]s ([[oak]] seeds) and [[pine nut]]s, extensively supplemented by [[invertebrate]]s and their larvae, soft [[fruit]]s and berries, and also human-provided scraps in parks and towns.

This species usually nests in loose, open colonies with a [[Bird nest|single nest]] in each [[tree]]. There are usually 6&ndash;8 [[Bird egg|eggs]] that are incubated for 15 days. Azure-winged magpies that have asynchronous broods, creating a size hierarchy among nestlings, produce more eggs and fledge more nestlings than those which have synchronous broods.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Da |first1=Xin-Wei |last2=Xian |first2=Li-Li |last3=Luo |first3=Juan-Juan |last4=Gao |first4=Li-Fang |last5=Du |first5=Bo  |year=2018 |title=Azure-winged Magpies ''Cyanopica cyanus'' trade off reproductive success and parental care by establishing a size hierarchy among nestlings |journal=Ibis |volume=160 |pages=769–778 |doi=10.1111/ibi.12575 |issue=4}}</ref>

The [[Bird call|voice]] is a quick fired and metallic sounding ''{{not a typo|kwink-kwink-kwink}}'' usually preceded by a single ''{{not a typo|krarrah}}''.