In good light, black on wings and tail shine with iridescent green, blue ... but the birds are easily able to quickly change direction in flight. Magpies usually swoop up or down to perch.

A West Lothian man has captured an image of a rare bird after it escaped its enclosure at a local zoo. The red-billed blue magpie escaped from Five Sisters Zoo around two weeks ago. Locals had ...

These are some of the ominous warnings issued in Australia each spring, as magpies and humans begin their annual turf war. Streets and parks become a battleground, as the birds - descending from ...