Australian authorities have ordered the seizure of a magpie after the famous internet bird formed an adorable friendship with a Staffordshire bull terrier. Molly the magpie was found as a lonely ...

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Magpies are a protected wild species in Australia and play an important role ... to its dog best friend and the family that rescued the bird as a chick. However, in an emotional video posted ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The Queensland Government has confirmed Molly the Magpie can stay with its owners ... had no permit to care for native wildlife, but the bird was returned six weeks later after a public outcry.

An animal rescuer in Australia came to the assistance of a hungry magpie that went searching for food and ended up trapped ...

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 ...

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 ...