(Seychelles magpie robins love cockroaches and will eat them dead or alive.) Perhaps the poor birds could survive one of these assaults, but not the combined effect. With these data in hand ...

Magpies, in the corvid family, are omnivirous and will eat meat as well as nuts and seeds, and in fact have been known to attack other songbirds like thrushes and steal their eggs. It’s led to ...

Now, gardeners are being urged to leave out foods that magpies will eat, such as kitchen scraps, as well as fruits like raisins and sultanas, oats, nuts and even raw meat such as diced raw chicken.

With their large size, bold pied plumage, and fondness for open areas, black-billed magpies are easily seen. They hop and walk on the ground with a swaggering and confident gait. Monotypic.

Radcliffe Donkey Sanctuary say magpies are targeting their elderly animals Elderly donkeys at a sanctuary are being attacked and "picked on" by "flesh-eating" magpies, in what is becoming a ...