Nita Jalkanen says she checks on the avian neighbours that fly into her Edmonton backyard to drink from her bird bath nearly ...

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 ...

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. ...