The Black-billed Magpie is unmistakeable, with its striking black and white body pattern and streaming ornamental tail. Often when I meet people who are visiting Colorado or relocating from the ...

Spend any amount of time in the Vail Valley, and that flash of tuxedo white on black will catch your eye. The lon, graceful tail gleams iridescent greens and blues. With a stately black bill and a ...

The first time I heard and saw a black-billed magpie, I was sure someone’s exotic and very expensive pet had escaped its aviary. I lived in the top story of a Victorian house on the wrong side of the ...

A brutal case of infanticide has been recently reported in the black-billed magpie. In a series of vivid videos, an adult perpetrator kills or drags out all six nestlings from a nest. Who could have ...

Helminths recovered from 25 nestlings, 65 juvenile, and 55 adult black-billed magpies, Pica pica hudsonia (Sabine, 1823) between April 1963 and April 1964, were Echinostoma sp., Dilepis undula, ...

Finding their young dead in the nest is not uncommon for bird mothers. In many bird species some of the nestlings die before they leave the nest. This is known as "brood reduction", a common form of ...

Although you may not realize it, most people are familiar with the corvid family of passerines, or perching birds. In our northern Minnesota region American crows, northern ravens and blue jays are ...

No, this is not turning into the Magpie Column. But I just got wind of disturbing news about these birds that needs to reach a wider audience. The July issue of The Auk, published by the American ...

San Luis Obispo County continues to be a hotspot for one of the state’s most distinctive and popular birds — the yellow-billed magpie. A survey conducted in June by Audubon California volunteers found ...