Many gardeners are annoyed by magpies in their gardens - but they actually offer a useful service by removing pests like ...

Many, on meeting the bird, raise their cap to it or even salute it to avoid bad luck. Seeing a lone magpie before going out ...

A chaffinch's song lasts about three seconds and is repeated; it starts with buzzing notes, slows, descends into a jumble, ...

The Seychelles magpie robin (Copsychus sechellarum), a black-feathered bird about the size of a European blackbird, dwindled to fewer than 20 individuals on a single island in the Seychelles ...

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 ...