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 ...

An Australian magpie has been discovered exhibiting behaviour so strange, alarmed experts have taken the wild bird into care. One video shows it rolling around on its back like a cat and playing ...

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 ...

The species can only be found in parts of Northern and Central California. It was hit hard by the West Nile Virus in the ...

The photo of a magpie stuck in a Coles store has highlighted the issue of birds appearing to be heading inside the supermarkets and getting stuck in recent months. The latest bird was spotted in ...