Many gardeners are annoyed by magpies in their gardens - but they actually offer a useful service by removing pests like ...

Many gardeners have been looking for ways to deter magpies or stop magpies from coming into gardens, but experts say this ...

“But there are always two sides to the coin: yes, Magpies have been accused of stealing and consuming the eggs of innocent ...

The Wright's skink, a lizard native to the Seychelles, likes to dine on magpie robins' eggs and chicks. By 1970, 16 Seychelles magpie robins remained on Earth, all on Frégate. The species had ...

"As much as I don't like them, they don't deserve to die… just because they're defending their eggs." Besides, magpie attacks are a character-building rite of passage, she says.

People's experience of being dive bombed by magpies was mobbing behaviour that related to spring and nesting time, she said. "When the female sits on the eggs, she has to stay there for four weeks ...