Glossy black and white bodies and wings with a beautiful iridescent blue-green sheen on their back and tail feathers, both ...

In good light, black on wings and tail shine with iridescent green, blue ... but the birds are easily able to quickly change direction in flight. Magpies usually swoop up or down to perch.

Juliette Wells and her partner Reece saved a baby magpie from a dog park two years ago, and now the bird is bonded with the couple's Staffordshire bull terriers Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at ...