It's hard to go a day in Calgary without seeing magpies or hearing their iconic screech. The magpie is the city's most ...

She's free to fly but always returns to the home of the family who rescued her. Penguin, the magpie pictured here, is considered family by Cameron Bloom, his wife and sons. Cameron Bloom Photography & ...

Magpie swooping season will ramp up over coming weeks, to the dread of cyclists and joggers around the country. It's in some magpies' nature to swoop in spring, as their protective instincts over ...

A rare white magpie spotted in Wales recently is "beyond anything I could ever imagine seeing," a bird enthusiast exclaimed recently. Terry Wright, 52, spotted the bird in the coastal town of ...

Andrew Garrett is a regular cyclist on the streets of Canberra but exercise and fresh air aren't the only thing he encounters on his rides. "When my cycling overlaps with the maggie breeding season, I ...

In the late 1960s, while the world preoccupied itself with rock-'n'-roll and flower power and moon landings, a small bird far out in the Indian Ocean came within a hair's breadth of vanishing forever.

Geoff Maslen was riding his bike to the gym on a beautiful spring day in Melbourne, Australia when he started to feel something pinging off the back of his helmet. At first, he was confused by the ...

On December 13, 2025, in Tianjin, China, @80Bǎomā shared a video of a magpie and a young boy. In the video, the bird is seen ...

An Australian woman has recalled how she was left permanently blind after a magpie poked her eye. The woman named Kristy recounted the moment on TikTok while reacting to a video of influencer Sarah ...