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 ...

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 ...

New research has shown for the first time that magpies can distinguish between the number of callers when played recordings of intruder magpies. Researchers from The University of Western Australia's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Magpies are notoriously territorial, but they're also highly intelligent and social birds. Magpies are notoriously territorial, ...

Newcastle ended their 70-year wait for a major domestic trophy after beating Liverpool 2-1 at Wembley. Dan Burn and Alexander Isak had the Magpies 2-0 ahead before substitute Federico Chiesa replied ...

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 ...

Afraid of being attacked by magpies this spring? Then you need to make yourself look "completely ridiculous", according to behavioural ecologist Daryll Jones from Griffith University. He said his team ...

More than 800 incidents have already been reported so far this magpie swooping season, and with two months to go, experts have revealed what Australians can expect and how they can best protect ...

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 ...