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 ...

Have you ever been dive-bombed by a magpie? I have. I didn’t grow up with these aggressive, bauble loving birds of the American West, so I didn’t realize their propensity for coming after shiny things ...

Australian magpies have made themselves at home in human cities, but that doesn’t mean that urban environments are free of challenges. New research suggests that human noise pollution affects the ...

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 ...

A blue magpie was caught on camera stealing a sandwich from a café in New Taipei City, Taiwan, on May 4, 2026. Footage shows ...

Azure-winged magpies, an Asian bird species, take any opportunity to provide food to their group members, even without receiving any reward themselves. A team of cognitive biologists showed this type ...