She's free to fly but always returns to the home of the family who rescued her. Penguin, the magpie pictured here, is considered family by Cameron Bloom, his wife and sons. Cameron Bloom Photography & ...

Joshua Kristian McCoy is a freelance writer and film critic from the United States. He is a lifelong film buff, a voting member of the Georgia Film Critics Association, a tournament-winning Smash Bros ...

Geoff Maslen was riding his bike to the gym on a beautiful spring day in Melbourne, Australia when he started to feel something pinging off the back of his helmet. At first, he was confused by the ...

A rare white magpie spotted in Wales recently is "beyond anything I could ever imagine seeing," a bird enthusiast exclaimed recently. Terry Wright, 52, spotted the bird in the coastal town of ...

On December 13, 2025, in Tianjin, China, @80Bǎomā shared a video of a magpie and a young boy. In the video, the bird is seen ...

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.

After almost 150,000 votes, the race for the nation's hearts and ears has drawn to a close. A third of all votes in the final round went to Gymnorhina tibicen: the famous Australian magpie. Its songs ...

An Australian woman has recalled how she was left permanently blind after a magpie poked her eye. The woman named Kristy recounted the moment on TikTok while reacting to a video of influencer Sarah ...

I had just killed my biological father for the fourth—or perhaps the fifth—time when the crows took to the air, screaming. I leaped from my laptop, raced into the garden, and vaulted the fence into ...

[September 22, 2021] If you loved Anthony Horowitz’s acclaimed novel, then get ready for the Magpie Murders TV series coming to MASTERPIECE on PBS! Magpie Murders recently wrapped production in London ...