These are some of the ominous warnings issued in Australia each spring, as magpies and humans begin their annual turf war. Streets and parks become a battleground, as the birds - descending from ...

Flight: relatively slow, with steady, rowing wingbeats, but the birds are easily able to quickly change direction in flight. Magpies usually swoop up or down to perch. While monotypic, birds in ...

Spring is in the air and with it comes swooping season for the infamous magpie birds. These iconic black and white birds, native to Australia, are generally charming songbirds, but during breeding ...

When we attached tiny, backpack-like tracking devices to five Australian magpies for a pilot study, we didn’t expect to discover an entirely new social behaviour rarely seen in birds. Our goal was to ...

How well do you know Australia ... birds? Darryl Jones is an urban ecologist fascinated with the birds that live among us.

"Peggy and Molly" regularly feature in videos playing together and have millions of fans on social media An Australian ... magpie to its human carers after it was seized by wildlife authorities ...

A magpie-lark swooped down from the sky ... and befriending local birds. Bird Life Australia senior public relations adviser Sean Dooley said the results of the study were surprising, as he ...