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 ...

With increasing heat waves in cities putting pressure on the survival of magpie chicks, more work is needed to understand how to best protect these populations. However, the researchers still came ...

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 ...

Magpies are known to aggressively swoop perceived threats close to their nesting areas during breeding season Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working ...