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

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 ...

Man is attacked by bird every day on his bike route home from work. Alejandro Rios, 25, said he continues to get attacked by a magpie on his bike route home from work in Brisbane, Australia.

“When I saw my first magpie here in Edmonton, I said, ‘Oh, what a beautiful bird.’ And the person I was with said, ‘We don’t like those.’ I still disagree with that.

Their data shows that of 59 magpie attacks, the eye was the birds' most common target. ... only about 12 per cent of all male magpies will actually attack people. Of these, ...

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. Experts say they do not ...