Nita Jalkanen says she checks on the avian neighbours that fly into her Edmonton backyard to drink from her bird bath nearly ...

A man said he is often attacked by a magpie bird on his way home from work. The birds are known for remembering faces — and this one just won't seem to forget him.

The bird is seen in murals around town and locals sometimes wear magpie costumes for Halloween. Elly Knight, an avian ecologist with the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute, says that’s why it ...

Juliette Wells and her partner Reece saved a baby magpie from a dog park two years ago, and now the bird is bonded with the couple's Staffordshire bull terriers ...

Knight said magpies aren’t her first choice of bird species to represent the city. “I find magpies a little bit brash relative to the average Edmontonian,” she said. “They’re so noisy.

But delving further into the ISIS data, we find that almost two thirds of the magpie victims were male, and half of all those attacked were aged between 10-30. Obviously magpies are selective!

How can you tell if a Magpie is male or female? There's a few ways to differentiate male magpies from females. Males tend to be slightly larger than females and have longer, thicker bills.

We’re only two months into the four-month magpie “swooping season” but already more than 600 Australians have been attacked and almost 70 have been injured.

Only a very small portion of male magpies engage in the practice though, and when they do, it's to protect their nests during breeding season, from August to November.

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Rios said he was first pecked on the head by a dive-bombing magpie bird on Sept. 20 — and he thought it was an odd occurrence. “The first time, I felt something knock at my head,” he said.