Their beautiful warble is a quintessential Australian sound and ... is their fanbase that in one 2017 poll magpies were voted Australia's favourite bird and massive shrines have been erected ...

The Seychelles magpie robin (Copsychus sechellarum), a black-feathered bird about the size of a European blackbird, dwindled to fewer than 20 individuals on a single island in the Seychelles ...