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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The black-billed magpie has been named Edmonton’s city bird following a public vote that saw the familiar and controversial species soar past five other entrants. The result of the vote that began in ...

Walk around Alaska's largest city for any amount of time and it soon becomes evident: Anchorage has a lot of full-time feathered residents. And if you take a stroll or hike in the spring or early ...

They are strikingly handsome, intelligent and bold. They build nests with domed roofs and side entrances and decorate these homes with the bright shiny objects they collect. They hold funeral services ...

Often when I meet people who are visiting Colorado or relocating from the eastern U.S., they ask “What is that beautiful black and white bird with the long tail?” My typical shrugging reply is, “Oh ...