The black-billed magpie has been named Edmonton’s city bird following a public vote that saw the familiar and controversial species soar past five other entrants.

While monotypic, birds in the south average smaller and tend to show bare dark grayish skin below eye (similar in shape to the yellow skin on yellow-billed magpie). Black bill and range ...

When it comes to building nests, birds use a wide variety of tactics and materials. Some birds, like the puffin, burrow into ...

The boy asked if we had seen the Black-legged Kittiwake ... I realized I could hear another magpie behind me. Suddenly the bird I was watching took off and flew across the road to the oak I ...

"They named [the Australian bird] 'magpie' because they're black and white, and there was a bird in Europe that is black and white, called the 'magpie'." The name "piping shrike", and the related ...