Caption: After votes were counted, the magpie was the clear winner to be Edmonton's official bird. Michael Overduin is the founder of Edmonton River project, and he helped design the magpie image ...

The bird is seen in murals around town and locals sometimes wear magpie costumes for Halloween. Elly Knight, an avian ecologist with the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute, says that’s why it ...

Female magpies have been revealed as chattier and louder, according to new Australian research. Associate Professor Amanda Ridley, from the University of Western Australia, said magpies are some ...

Female magpies have been shown to be more adventurous than their male siblings, according to new research. “The fact that observable differences between the first hatched and last hatched magpie ...

Research Says Female Magpies Are Louder Than Males Which Wouldn’t Happen If They Fkn LISTENED. By. Melissa Mason. Published. July 2, 2020. I actually hate birds, but I do have a soft spot for ...

Eventually, the female bird succeeded, and the behavior was repeated in the following hours. By day three of the experiment, the magpies removed a tracker off one dominant male.

Share; Print; In Depth › Nature Features › Environment and Nature. Magpies behaving badly. In winter and early spring, many Australians start scanning the skies for a crazy black and white ...

Four female magpie shrikes escaped in July. Getty Images/iStockphoto The species has a designation of “least concern” on the organization’s list of endangered animals.

Female magpies will typically lay eggs in mid-August and the males will defend the nest while she sits on them for three weeks until they hatch. ...