Magpie

[bnjtokyo]

Wikipedia says they were supposed to be magpies. But they don't strongly resemble the North American magpie with the broadest range (the black-bill magpie, Pica hudsonia) because that species has a black bill and legs and a slimmer body. (I'll ignore the anthropomorphic hands in the cartoon birds.) The yellow-billed magpie (Pica nuttalli) is limited to California, which, perhaps significantly, is where the cartoons were created. Yellow-billed magpies have yellow bills, like the characters, but black feet, unlike the cartoon characters. And of course Heckle & Jeckle live the Hollywood lifestyle and put on some weight.

[LukeJavan8]

Most interesting, thanks for your research.
We don't have magpies around here, enough
other pests however. Sorry, they just seem
like they'd be a pest bird.