But help was to come from a very unexpected source. The family discovered an injured and abandoned magpie chick which had fallen from its nest near their home. The process of nursing the bird back ...

The Wright's skink, a lizard native to the Seychelles, likes to dine on magpie robins' eggs and chicks. By 1970, 16 Seychelles magpie robins remained on Earth, all on Frégate. The species had ...

Magpies swoop intruders entering their territory — like dogs, cats, pedestrians and cyclists — to defend eggs and chicks in their nest. The swooping usually occurs within 100 metres of the ...

"The muscle atrophy to my calf meant it was a chicken leg, it was so skinny and I lost it so ... When I came back, I remembered why, because I was so happy." The Magpies take on the Bulldogs in the ...