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 ...

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 ...

If all this sounds about as clear as mud (or mudlarks ... who pointed out that "the piping shrike and the Murray magpie are distinct birds" – but the fallacy evidently caught on.