The Australian magpie is not from the crow family—its closest relatives are butcherbirds—songbirds with strong beaks. Barring seagulls and masked lapwings, these swooping species have one ...

Meanwhile, Adelaide young gun Darcy Fogarty has been cleared for his contact on Ben Crocker in the final term. The Magpie leapt for the football and Christian believed Fogarty had his eyes on the ball ...

The Caledonian Crow uses a twig as a tool to extract grubs ... unsuspecting host on which to dump its eggs, the azure-winged magpie. The emerging cuckoo chicks ejected their foster siblings ...

Between August and October, magpies are fiercely protecting their nests by swooping and pecking at those who come too close. In a bid to help Aussies avoid the dreaded attacks this year ...

Norder has long been a fixture at the Magpies, playing both netball and football for the club and captaining the ... and Michael Hartley (AFL Victoria) moving on. An inaugural Crow, Metcalfe retired ...

The name "piping shrike", and the related "piping crow shrike" (which seems to have referred to a very similar but slightly blacker magpie), date from the same period. Explorer Charles Sturt wrote ...

With their large size, bold pied plumage, and fondness for open areas, black-billed magpies are easily seen. They hop and walk on the ground with a swaggering and confident gait. Monotypic.

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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 ...

Researchers collected nests of a carrion crow and a Eurasian magpie that were largely built with anti-bird spikes material that should have deterred birds. Auke-Florian Hiemstra added ...

Alex Kouts, 2024 NAB AFL Auskicker of the Year and Pippa McTaggart 2023 NAB AFL Auskicker of the Year. Getty Images ...