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 ...

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 ...

A curious magpie found itself trapped inside a supermarket in Australia and had to be rescued after doing a little browsing.Nigel Williamson, who runs Nigel’s Animal Rescue, filmed his footage of him ...