With their large size, bold pied plumage, and fondness for open areas, black-billed magpies are easily seen. They hop and walk on the ground with a swaggering and confident gait. Monotypic.

What's the best way to get kids excited about wildlife and conservation? Is it to fill them up with science about diet and range and populations? Or can you give them a sense of wildlife wonder ...

These are some of the ominous warnings issued in Australia each spring, as magpies and humans begin their annual turf war. Streets and parks become a battleground, as the birds - descending from ...