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The species can only be found in parts of Northern and Central California. It was hit hard by the West Nile Virus in the ...

Australians are once again being warned against keeping native wildlife as pets, after a severely ill magpie died following a ...

While charming to us, the magpie robin's tame behavior almost led to its downfall. Once widespread in the Seychelles, it lived in closed-canopy forest, and its only predators were the native ...

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 ...