Experts estimate the wildfires currently burning through southern Australia have killed over half a billion animal Australian magpies, a species unrelated to the other magpies found throughout the ...

Magpies are tough and handsome birds. They’re hard to like as they wreak havoc on the nests and young of more desirable songbirds but earn my grudging respect for their intelligence and boldness. I ...

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Walk around Alaska's largest city for any amount of time and it soon becomes evident: Anchorage has a lot of full-time feathered residents. And if you take a stroll or hike in the spring or early ...

Two summers ago, a patient looking out his Belgian-hospital window spied in a tree an odd, abandoned magpie nest of plastic and wire. He had, by coincidence, just read a newspaper article about a ...

Often when I meet people who are visiting Colorado or relocating from the eastern U.S., they ask “What is that beautiful black and white bird with the long tail?” My typical shrugging reply is, “Oh ...

Magpies may have perfected the art of swooping, but they're not the only Australian bird diving on unsuspecting humans this spring. Plovers, noisy miners, and crows are three species of birds common ...

Nita Jalkanen checks on the avian neighbours that fly into her Edmonton backyard to drink from her bird bath nearly every day with her dog Ariel. “I talk to them. I say, ‘Good morning,’ or ‘Good ...