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 ...

Birds have captivated artists for centuries ... is housed at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. The Magpie is part of Monet’s winter series and is displayed alongside the world’s largest ...

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 ...

These are some of the ominous warnings issued in Australia each spring, as magpies and humans begin their annual turf war. Streets and parks become a battleground, as the birds - descending from ...

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 ...

The Dutch master painters in the 1800s have always been painting dead birds. We’ve always been thinking about birds in that way throughout history. But I feel like the way that I approach it is ...

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 ...

A rare white magpie was spotted among a group of the more common kind - showing birds of a feather don't always flock together. Amateur photographer Terry Wright photographed the creature ...