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Is it illegal to keep a red-billed blue magpie?

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If you purchase artificially bred products through formal channels and ensure that the source is legal, it is generally not illegal. However, it is illegal to capture wild red-billed blue magpies for breeding.

 Is it illegal to raise a red-billed blue magpie?

The red-billed blue magpie is known as the "happy blue bird" and can make a variety of sounds. Different noisy calls and whistles. Common and widely distributed in forest edges, shrubs and even villages. Sexually noisy and active in small groups. It feeds on fruits, small birds, eggs, and insects, often on the ground.