Jessie Veeder shares observations about the wild black-and-white birds that were once so prevalent on their ranch, then ...

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 ...

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 ...

A magpie-lark swooped down from the sky, its beak piercing her right eye. Jan Wright had emergency surgery on her eye in September following a bird attack in Melbourne. Credit: Luis Enrique Ascui ...