A heartbroken woman is pleading for help after more than 30 magpies mysteriously dropped dead in her suburban front yard. The ...

The EHP allow for a relocation process where swooping magpies pose a direct threat to groups of young or old or have the ability to cause serious injury. Photo: Screenshot Magpies can be pretty great ...

When Dominique Potvin and her team set out to test a new technology for tracking birds, they didn’t think they were entering into an interspecies game of one-upmanship. Instead, Potvin, an animal ...

Black-billed magpies are year-round residents in our part of the Red River Valley, so I'm not surprised to see one on a drive through the countryside. I am pleased, though, because it shows me the ...

Both magpies and crows belong to the corvid family, a group renowned for exceptional intelligence that rivals primates in ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. My dad, a cow cockie who was ahead of his time when it came to conservation issues, was fond of saying that when Europeans arrived in ...

Geoff Maslen was riding his bike to the gym on a beautiful spring day in Melbourne, Australia when he started to feel something pinging off the back of his helmet. At first, he was confused by the ...

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 ...

Researchers tried to attach tracking devices to magpies for a study. But the magpies helped each other to remove them — a possible sign, the scientists say, of altruism in the birds. Birds in ...

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