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For many New Zealanders, the Australian magpie is a familiar, if sometimes vexing, sight. Introduced from Australia in the ...
When we attached tiny, backpack-like tracking devices to five Australian magpies, we didn't expect to discover an entirely new social behaviour rarely seen in birds, writes Dominique Potvin.
Magpies crop up in the Christian tradition quite extensively. It is said that the magpie was not allowed inside Noah’s Ark because of its incessant chattering, but instead had to perch on the roof.
The magpies flew away fine, and we were, you know, all set to go. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Dominique Potvin is a behavioral ecologist at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia.
For magpies, who live in groups with as many as a dozen members, these cognitive traits allow them to collectively defend territory and communally raise young.