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Nearly 60,000 Australians ventured outside in October 2024 to take part in the Aussie Bird Count, the country’s largest ...
The top four birds observed over the past eleven years have remained consistent, with the Noisy Miner, Australian Magpie, and ...
The rainbow lorikeet has been identified as Australia's most numerous bird species, according to country's largest citizen ...
It can take a long time for a crow to forgive your transgressions. And it’s a similar story for the Australian magpie.
according to the Australian Museum, and are adept at mimicking many of the noises around them, including the calls of other birds and animals. Unfortunately, the magpies of New South Wales ...
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 Juliette Wells and her partner Reece found a baby bird in need at a dog park near their home in Queensland, Australia. "It was magpie breeding season," Juliette told PEOPLE of when she first ...
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 ...
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 ...