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 ...

Magpies are arguably the country's most polarising bird. Named after their resemblance ... a flash of their reddish-brown eyes - all enough to strike fear in the hearts of many.

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 ...

A world-famous magpie has been handed over to authorities by a blogger amid allegations that it had been 'kept unlawfully'. Molly became a global phenomenon when wildlife enthusiast Juliette Wells ...

Regarded as the "hooligans" of the wild bird population, magpies can cause damage to gardens, particularly in the breeding season. With their iridescent black and white plumage and long tails ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brown re-dislocated his right shoulder in the first quarter of the Magpies' gritty eight-point win against West Coast on Saturday at the MCG. The luckless defender had his arm jammed in an awkward ...