Podoces hendersoni

The Mongolian ground jay, or Henderson's ground jay, is a crow-family bird found in Central Asia. It is 28cm long with sandy-beige upperparts, an off-white breast, iridescent dark blue on the secondaries and the tips of the primaries, a long decurved bill and a black stripe on the forehead (Wikipedia, general species account).

It nests in Prunus pedunculata, with eggs typically laid and hatched in April–May. Females spend more time foraging while males spend more time brooding the chicks at the start of nesting, and it has a relatively short trill call among ground jays (Wikipedia, general species account).