Nearly 60,000 Australians ventured outside in October 2024 to take part in the Aussie Bird Count, the country’s largest ...

The rainbow lorikeet has been identified as Australia's most numerous bird species, according to country's largest citizen ...

Officials from Queensland's Environment Department removed the male magpie from the Gold Coast home of Juliette Wells and Reese Mortenson on March 1, saying the wild bird was being kept unlawfully.

Researchers have set out to find the cause of a paralysis syndrome affecting magpies ... birds, the organizations that support them, and the government agencies and Wildlife Health Australia ...

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 ...

It can take a long time for a crow to forgive your transgressions – perhaps as long as 17 years! And it’s a similar story for the Australian magpie. Luckily, they take bribes! Corvids and the ...

Many species of animals and birds were injured and displaced by ex-tropical cyclone Alfred several weeks ago. Now, an effort is underway to help them heal and return to their homes in the wild.

For the record, the magpies that [Hans] is training are very intelligent and strikingly beautiful birds who delight in swooping down to harass people, and who will gladly steal food from other ...

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 ...