Few birds are as woven into Australian daily life as the magpie. Its warbling call drifts across suburban parks every morning; its black-and-white silhouette is as familiar as a neighbor’s face. But ...

Have you ever been dive-bombed by a magpie? I have. I didn’t grow up with these aggressive, bauble loving birds of the American West, so I didn’t realize their propensity for coming after shiny things ...

When Dominique Potvin and her team set out to test a new technology for tracking birds, they didn’t think they were entering into an interspecies game of one-upmanship. Instead, Potvin, an animal ...

Magpies that are aggressive towards other members of their group tend to be not so smart, according to researchers at The University of Western Australia. Dr. Lizzie Speechley, from UWA's School of ...

Australian magpies have made themselves at home in human cities, but that doesn’t mean that urban environments are free of challenges. New research suggests that human noise pollution affects the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Last month in Brisbane, Australia, a swooping magpie led to the tragic ...

Azure-winged magpies, an Asian bird species, take any opportunity to provide food to their group members, even without receiving any reward themselves. A team of cognitive biologists showed this type ...

Researchers tried to attach tracking devices to magpies for a study. But the magpies helped each other to remove them — a possible sign, the scientists say, of altruism in the birds. Birds in ...

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.