Things you need to know about MAGPIES!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 พ.ค. 2024
- This video covers everything you could ever want or need to know about Magpies. Including what magpies eat, where magpies live, how long magpies live and other magpie facts.
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The Eurasian magpie is an unmistakable bird belonging to the crow family. From a distance they look to be white and black but on close inspection their darker feathers glimmer with iridescent blue and green. Magpies grow to weigh from 180 to 270 grams and have a wingspan of 52 to 62 centimeters. They also have a very long tail compared to their bodies that when spread is shaped like a diamond.
There are currently around 600,000 pairs of magpies in the UK and they have a large distribution across all of Europe, and are also found in Asia and in some northern parts of Africa.
Magpies are extremely intelligent, perhaps the most intelligent bird on the planet and use this superior knowledge to source a wide range of foods. They will eat everything from nuts, seeds and grains, to small birds, reptiles, insects, eggs, small mammals and various carrion. What they cannot eat straight away they sometimes cache away for eating later.
Magpies can start breeding at one year of age but they often wait until their second year and spend the first year roaming in small flocks of other young birds. When they do pair up, they will stay with the same mate for life and remain together throughout as a couple throughout the year. Nesting starts in April when the pair build a dome shaped nest high of the ground, often in the fork of a tree. This nest is made of twigs and cemented together with mud. Once the nest is completely built the female will lay between 3 and 6 green eggs speckled with brown. These eggs take around 21 days to hatch and then the chicks take a further 27 days to fledge. A lot of the chicks that hatch, do not survive to fledgling with roughly one out of every 3, dying from starvation. Once the chicks have fledges, they stay with their parents as a family group for several more weeks whilst they learn how to find their own food. A magpies survival rate through the first year can be as low as 22% but once a bird makes It through this first 12 months, it has an average life expectancy of around 3 and a half years. However, there has been a record of a wild magpie surviving to more than 21 years and this bird didn’t die of natural causes but was shot so could have lived for even longer.
As mentioned earlier, Magpies are extremely intelligent. They have been shown to use tools, to understand basic mathematics, and are the only bird to have shown to have self recognition. Some research suggests their intelligence may be on par with that of the great apes and some scientists believe they are capable of both grief and imagination!
One for sorrow, 2 for joy, 3 for a girl and four for a boy. Magpies are the subject of lots of superstitions but that short poem is the beginning of probably the most famous one. It is a long list of predictions that will happen if you see specific numbers of magpies. And despite it changing slightly throughout the centuries, seeing one magpie alone has always been a sign of bad luck. But don’t worry, if you see one magpie, there are several things you can try to combat the bad luck, including spitting over your shoulder three times, saying “good morning mister magpie. How is your lady wife today” and flapping your arms to imitate a second magpie. I haven’t tried any of these but if you do, let me know how it affects your luck.
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I have a good friend that has an animal sanctuary. She gets lots of animals and many birds every spring but she once got a baby magpie come in. She used to carry this baby magpie in her hoodie, wearing the hoodie backwards so the hood was at the front. She was always talking to him and he always talked back. They are great mimics and can make all kinds of sounds. They were always together except at night when she put him in a safe place to sleep. This little magpie was incredibly smart, even as a youngster. My friend and this magpie were inseparable and there was clearly a great bond and much love between them. When he grew up to be an adult, strong and healthy she knew the time had come to let him have his freedom. She knew when that time came when he started watching other magpies flying about in the garden. She let him fly but he kept coming back. She kept taking him back but also let him have access to the garden. One day he left and did not come back. Even though this was a success story for a rehabilitator, she was completely crushed. She missed him horribly. About a month later he showed up with a lady magpie. He introduced his new wife then they left. Soon after they had baby magpies and the whole family would come to visit her. This happened a few ago and he continues to visit her regularly.
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Wonderful!
Free food ye they are smart, bet there aint many indigenous song birds in the garden though.
What a lovely story. Thank you
What a lovely story thank you for sharing
I was privileged to share my home with a magpie for 10 plus years. Totally imprinted. Not by me.
She talked as well as our African Grey.
In two little girls voices. I can still hear
"Mommie come here !!
Right NOW" LoL
She got into everything.
Had a stash of "stuff"
under the potpourri in a Roseville pottery dish.
At least once a week she would throw the potpourri everywhere.
Line up all her treasure's and check them out. Then put them back. Put a couple of pieces of the potpourri over and fly off. Leaving me to clean up the mess.
She was a total joy.
There’s a family of magpies at my local park. I think it’s a bunch of first years and some parents. I saw that one of them that died about a month ago, and the whole family was mourning its death in a kind of ritual. They are most definitely very intelligent. As I wrote this at the same park, I watched them not five minutes ago play around with a rabbit, pestering it and chasing it around for a time. Then they got bored and went to looking for food, and the rabbit came back and they’re all foraging through the grass together. Nature truly is a marvel.
I had a pair of magpies nesting in a tree outside where I used to live. One of them is easy to recognize because it's missing a part of its foot. I called it Stumpy and it's partner I called Crash. I would often lay out food for them when they had chicks and during winter and if I was late on some days with food, they'd come knocking on my window, it got to the point where they'd take food out of my hand or respond if I whistled for them. One year, they only had one chick and one morning, Crash came tapping at my widow but didn't want any food. Crash kept flying to a certain place in the garden, where Stumpy was sitting and back again so I went to investigate and found one of the chicks, unfortunatly, dead. I took the chick and went to bury it in a secluded spot and the entire time, while I was carrying the chick and digging the hole to bury it, they sat next to the dead chick. After I had buried it, they would sometimes sit by the grave or bring little pebbles or tiny twigs or even leave bits of food I gave them. It was very unusual but it was clear they were feeling a very certain way about their loss.
I had to move this year and the landlord, a lovely old lady who loves birds, promised she would keep feeding them. I moved about 10 minutes away and about a week after I moved, I woke up to a loud bang outside on my porch. I looked outside my window and there they were, Stumpy and Crash, chattering away like there was no tomorrow amongs a broken pot of growing strawberries. Either they accidentally or intentionally found me but I was still so happy to see them. They come by from time to time even now.
Thank you for sharing this story ❤
On may 18, when returning from work, I saw a single magpie on the side of the road, was starving, I did not salute him but I opened my palms and he jumped on them, I took him home, now is on my shoulder picking my earlobe. Please add to the list:
1. They are capable of love and affection!
2. They know their name
3. They will protect your chair if you have guests (they will swoosh and hit them)
4. They shit allot, much more if they are afraid, (I call it panik mode).
5. They don't shit on your head (like seen in a video involving the son of a celebrity)
6. They are lot smaller than it seems (you can see it after they take a bath)
7. If they do something bad and you scold them, it will retreat somewhere and start arguing with themselves.
8. If you leave the house, they will fly away to a high place then follow you, if you leave with the car, you can find them waiting on the highest place near your home when you return.
I shot one this week cuz it was eating all the bird seed and attacking the blue tits.
@@ethanlay1614 let nature take it's course, don't do this kinda shit FFS
@@ethanlay1614 you shot a bird because it ate the bird food you put out for.... birds???
@@paul1warr right 🤣
Can you please film all of that?
A year ago, my wife and I helped a young fledgling magpie that was on the footpath opposite our house. I could see two other magpies with it but the one in question had lots of downy feathers and appeared injured, at least, unable to take flight. We were concerned in could easily fall prey to any of several cats that patrol our area, so we brought it back to our house and called an animal/bird sanctuary. All during this time, one of the other magpies perched on electrical wires behind our house, observing everything. In the end, we took the young magpie to a large bush in our garden and after climbing a ladder with it in hand, we were able to get it on top of the foliage. We didn’t see it fly away but we checked the bush later and found no sign of it or the other magpie that had been watching us. Now a year later, a solitary magpie comes to the cherry tree in our garden. I am often sitting outside and it comes very close, not frightened or disturbed if I get up to walk closer. I spoke to it, as I had when reassuring the other fledgling a year ago and on two occasions it came onto the ground and hopped a little closer. It flies off if I get too close but I am convinced this is ‘our’ young magpie we helped a year ago.
Great story just needs some dragons added to it then you have a potential best seller.
If I ever get to write about be- friending a small bird on my GCSE English course I'll use this story and add some of my own twists too it. You have good imagination.
ron donnis - I am quite insulted by your insinuation! It is NOT imagination, it actually happened and the magpie (if it is the one we helped) is still visiting our garden. It may be a different one of course. It did again yesterday evening. If you can’t trust me to tell the truth, you should look at yourself and ask yourself why you’re so cynical. I can’t abide lies and deceit - maybe that is something you know too much about. If that’s the case, I feel sorry for you but not everyone in your life will lie to you. I didn’t.
@@magnificentmuttley2084 I believe you. They are the smartest birds alive. I've had a few for pets and they have never ceased to amaze me. They make the most perfect pets. They are hilarious and good as having a pet dog.
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Keeping a magpie as a pet doesn't sound an easy task.
How did you protected against sheeting everywhere all over the house?
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I love magpies! It started when I was a child (72 now) and my brothers brought one back from the woods which had fallen from the nest, he used to talk and follow my mother around and call her Betty, he would peck our toes so we would hurry up and put our socks and shoes on for school, he would go out the garden and come in when he wanted, he lived with us for years one day he went off and never came home, we were told he had found a mate and got married. Lovely memories 🏴
Diolch 🎉
I had a Crow I rescued as a baby nestling who had been taken by a Hawk & dropped apparently, according to the witnesses who brought him to me. He had a badly ravaged wing and I didnt think he would survive but I got plenty of fluids & protein into him & nursed him through it all , even taught him to fly! and Nev chose to return & live with me for the next 3yrs despite our several attempts at releasing him back into the local population.
He was an extremely intelligent & affectionate creature & I grew to love him very much . I adored his quirky character, his love of water and bathing constantly , they are very misundersood & maligned birds people dont give them enough credit, they are fussy & clean & even dunk their food in water if they can, he shared his food also with his friends who would visit him , he would take pieces of meat or nuts & fruits out of his bowls up on his stand , would fly to the edge of the balcony and drop them over the side for the others to swoop down and retrieve. He has emptied his bowls numerous times doing that and the local Crows & pigeons still visit.
I miss him very much still 4 years on.
He lived indoors with me and yes his pooping was a constant problem, ...they are not to be considered as pets, especially as babies they poop a lot! ...my home was draped in old sheets, towels and curtains for 2yrs until he finally adapted to using the outside parrot stand I bought him for on my balcony.
I realised he poops when he eats & drinks so I bought a big set up where he could eat and poop into a tray I lined. He would climb up the ladders to the very top and sit there with his food bowls beside him , watching down over the gardens of the houses beside us & the town below, while his Crow friends would come perch on the nearby rooftops and visit & caw with him.
He was very territorial and never flew farther than where he could see the balcony from.
His wing was not strong and he needed to fly from a height ,once grounded he could not lift off to any great height alone...instead he ran around with my two dogs & thought he was a dog im sure! He had no fear of them ever, & would run at them , hiss or yell at them, firmly putting them in their place if they tried to rough play or took his toys, we were a very happy family.
I lost him in our 3rd year together when he was a big glossy beauty & loving his life. He flew down one 4.30 am morning as per our usual routine to see off my partner for work. I would let him exercise with the dogs and then place him up on a high wall from where he could lift himself to fly amongst the low trees there below my balcony until he would caw loudly for me to come get him.
He never called for me that morning & we never saw him again. A short while later just after 5am a neighbour of ours, who was pretty obsessed with Nev and with whom id had a previous incident, knocked on my door telling me some wild tale about seeing Nev on a road he would never be able to get to...this person was later on the same day admitted into a mental health unit, having given us different rambling stories , so I believe they did something to Nev that morning & in their intoxicated confusion decided to come tell me they saw him far away so i would think he just flew off.
Very sad 😔 I have wonderful videos & pics of him on my youtube channel here if anybody would like to see Nev as a baby.
God Rest his dear little soul..........
ah bless poor, 😢
poor Bird sorry PC typo
@@joecampbell6486 Thank you yes it was devastating. He was such a good & gentle creature he did not deserve the hard life he had...but thankfully he had me & I tried hard to make him happy in his too short life.
@@alisonmansfield9052 Thank you Alison.
in around 1980 when living in the country around Glastonbury we came across a featherless bird on the side of the road. We took it home and i squashed up worms which we fed to him with tweezers. He survived the first night and got bigger and bigger and eventually once he developed feathers we could tell he was a magpie. He out grew his box so we made a run, which he out grew. Eventually i realised he needed to fly so we h let him go free but he stayed with us. He would fly away but come back and settle on my shoulder, He ate anything and everything. Maggot as we called him was very territorial and attacked anyone who came through the gate. After 6 months or so we released him on top of the mendips in the forest by the TV mast. We went back a week later and we were in a clearing. Maggot came flying down and landed on my shoulder just like he always did. He looked very happy. I often think of how many little maggots he was a dad too. Beautiful bird, full of character
Love that story. Magpies are intelligent and charismatic.😊
What a lovely story. I Love people who care about our wildlife.
My favorate are black birds in Australia.
Beautiful story ❤ ♥
@@paulablakeborough9404 I adore all birds Paula but magpies are close to my favourite i guess for their cheeky behaviour. I am lucky enough to have sparrows visiting our bird table and the constant chirp chirp is one of natures joys. Glad you like my memory of Maggot.
My aunt found a baby Magpie under a tree ( it had fallen from the nest ) she took that magpie home 15 years ago and now my aunt has passed away and Maggie the Magpie is still alive living with her son ( my cousin) they are amazing birds and I love having little Maggie as a part of the family lol
jill McIntyre, look at bird bath
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Aww , I love these stories ,
How do they keep her ... in a cage?
Jill, I'm so jealous ! 😃
My Dad loved nature & birds, the day he died a Magpie flew around me constantly, I was outside making calls about my Dads passing, I was watching it, smiling x I’d always thought they were striking looking birds but never been near one. The next day one perched very close to me, I felt it knew I knew that was a hello from my Dad ♥️. It still happens that was 11 yrs ago.
I love magpies, I rescued two in the past and they are so smart, huge satisfaction watching them become independent and go live with their wild counterparts.
I always salute a single magpie, learnt that from an old girlfriend.
Were I live it's traditional/ lucky to salute and say "good morning Mr Magpie, how is your wife? "
I always salute a single magpie then im looking for another one ,,two for 😂
@@Buster_Piles don't take the piss because his partner left him.
@@gavinthomas7375 that's probably why he looks so happy.
Was she a nice bird!
I have befriended the local magpie couple in my garden, every morning I put out two pecans on my windowsill, I wait a couple of minutes, and they come to collect them. I close the blinds slightly so they don't get too worried about me, but I can watch them really up close, they are just incredibly beautiful! And so smart, it only took a couple of mornings before they started anticipating the nuts being there for them every day. The couple are very easy to spot because the male has a 'dropped' wing that doesn't fold in properly, he does very well though and it doesn't seem to worry him.
Thank you for this video and thank you for writing the text. As a german guy it is difficult to follow the spoken words, especially when music is in the background (which wasn´t too bad). We found a little magpie under our tree four weeks ago. We took it in our house and cared for it. The intelligence was just stunning. The little bird grew fast, learned to fly and - sad to say - left us after three weeks. The relatives monitored every movement of their child and requested to have it back. But when we left it alone in the garden, they did not come to feed. So we continued feeding it and now it is back with its family, sometimes greeting us from a tree. We are happy about that but we miss it. It was such a sweet baby. The nest in our tree is still there and we hope it will come back making some new little maggies.
Brilliant story. I would love to include the script all the time but I believe you can use the youtube subtitles function which would help you to follow along as I'm speaking?
The magpie is my dad ❤ when he died, unexpectedly, in 2020 during Covid I decided that my dad was the magpie that came to my garden at the time of his death. I am from South Shields, we support Newcastle United, we are The Mags… ironically, I live in Leicestershire and see more Magpies here than I ever saw in South Shields … I love corvid birds all of them beautiful, just like my dad ❤
Wow your story is so similar to mine I got goosebumps! Every time I see a solo magpie I do the traditional salute and blow a kiss and say I love you into the air for my pops to catch! My grandparents kept a magpie and it fascinated me as a child, the morning after my pops passed (😢April 2020 but not covid related) I had a visit from 3 very noisy magpies in my garden and I truly believe it was my grandparents bringing my pops to let me know they were all together again and no one will ever tell me different ❤
I still salute the first Magpie I see every day. Something my Grandad taught me to do when I was a kid.
Talking about their intelligence I have a water bowl at my feeding station one day there was a pigeon eating the food and the Magpie didn't want to wait and proceeded to splash it till it left. These are one of my favourite birds.
I have always loved magpies! They add so much to the Swedish winter landscape. Their colouring is lovely. In Sweden, having a magpie-nest on your farm brings good luck, and I always hope they'll build their enormous, messy nests in one of my trees: once they start, they just build onto the old nest, and you get a lovely piece of post-modern architecture!
Magpies on a farm are a pest as they take as many eggs and young ones of any game or songbirds they can relentlessly route out,that's why most conscientious farmers cull them
@@mickwalsh8136 Pity we cant cull people like you..........
@@mickwalsh8136 Magpies are always pests. Evil creatures.
About 5/6 years ago a baby MAGPIE came into MY BUNGALOW and stayed for about an hour with my carers and myself
Hello blixten.thats a lovely way at looking at nature. Like you i always see the beauty in the world.i back onto a very deep forest so i see so much nature and many birds and animals.i watch all day long lol.nice to hear others loving art and nature.have a wonderful day from canada🌟✨😀🐭🐺🐶🐱🐰🐹🐦🐔
I love magpies. I love the way they call. Beautiful, clever birds.
Magpies are the only bird I've seen harassing cats. Ya gotta love a cocky corvid...
One of my mother's neighbours had an elderly tomcat whose hearing wasn't that good anymore and I heard he was harassed by magpies eventhough I didn't personally witness it. I find jackdaws more annoying because they are more vocal and move in crowds, even if I don't feel that strongly about them either.
They do it so as to protect their fledgings in advace.
@@user3141592635 Got 2 magpie in my neighbourhood that throughout June n July actually escort the local cat home......And the cat does as it is told every time.
I’ve had 2 blackbirds in my garden for several years, the male always chase away the cats. I’ve seen it strait fly into the cat and make the cat run for it’s life.
Magpies attacked my cat in a,tree, he was so shocked i had to take him to the vets. When my cat went into the garden the magpies homed in on him to give him a peck.
Still, i do love watching them.
I’m a 65 year old man in central Scotland. I never saw a magpie until my 20’s. Now, I see them every day. Must have discovered the greatness of Scotland eventually. Great vid. Subbed.
Hi eddie.first of all 65 is young lol.and your in scottland.what a beautiful place.im traveling there for work in sept.so maybe il see many birds.and other unique.anamals.have a. Great day.
There's a pair of magpies on the bench out the back every single morning. Tia my dog is as mesmerised as I am by them. Beautiful creatures.
I've got a magpie nest in my garden this year ! First time ever. It's at the top of a tall holly tree.
They've got three youngsters, and the five of them keep me entertained with their antics everytime I look out of the window !
I love magpies. 😍
They've got Green Parrots to contend with now
@@tommygunn1887 Why, are YOU coming round ?
That’s the end of all your small birds then, don’t moan there’s no birds coming to your bird table when the magpies have killed them all.
I was watching my dog chew on a bone in our back garden. I was amused to see two Magpies work together to get the bone off my dog.
One would jump around causing a commotion by the bone whilst the other one went behind my dog and pecked at his tail. Sure enough when the dog turned around to bite the tail pecking Magpie, the other one stole the bone.
Very clever.
Love them. When 1st moved to the UK I didn't know bird names and all that. I just thought I really like these birds and when I'd point them out to people they'd say "you like pies????" As if I was crazy. Then I became crazy about birds and I really don't like the negativity about them. They're wonderful birds.
Good for you.
They eat robin chicks. I don’t love them, but I guess that’s just nature.
I love magpies too. They are smart and they are funny. They also have a great gait and walk like they own the world, a real strut if I ever saw one.
Where I used to live I had a field full of magpies behind me, one day I counted 13. Good job I’m not _very_ superstitious.
Try & learn about what they do naturally. Nest robbers of both eggs & chicks. That's why in the countryside they get heavily controlled. My cousin has been controlling a farm in Hertfordshire & the song bird population numbers have gone up, even the farmer commented on the songbird numbers. He accounted in the first year to over 100 magpies, & there are still magpies around. Its good to have a general license so you can control some pests.
Your so like me I love birds so much crows robins magpies my favourite 🦅🦅🦅🦅
This video made me smile. Recently I have one of my chimneys cleared out by chimney sweeps who took away 5 large bin bags of twigs and other nesting materials. I wanted to have a fire to save on fuel. I only had time to have one because they returned and yesterday I counted 5 on my lawn after the bird food i had distributed. They are now back in the chimney and I am collected umpteen twigs daily from the hearth and hearing sweet little tweets in the early evening. They are very considerate though because they keep quiet while I am watching TV.
Hi Gladys. Im glad you enjoyed the video and hope you can continue to enjoy the others on this channel. It does sound like they have chosen your chimney and wont stop until you accept them as house mates. But it could be worse, at least they stay quiet whilst the TV is on! Cheers.
I raised one that my dog rescued as it fell out of a nest. It ate with the dog from its bowl and picked out all the best tidbits. It rode on the back of my dog. It greeted me after school and it went to bed by itself in a makeshift open basket as a cage. I loved him or her until one day there was another magpie on the other side of the fence. They cackled to each other and one day they took off together, never to be seen again. I will never forget my clever little friend. Suffice to say that I love these birds. 😊❤😊
We found a baby magpie that had fallen out of the nest. We took care of him until he was able to fly. He would come and go and then one day he didn't come back. He was a very intelligent bird and I will always remember all of his antics.
Over the past 2 years we've had less Magpies than usual with the result we have more songbirds again. The dawn chorus is a sound to behold at the moment with cheeping from the small birds and the Blackbirds and their beautiful song plus many more. Gives me the feel good factor.
There were 10 magpies on a roof opposite our house the other day.If i had an air riffle.
After a year of feeding and talking to magpies and crows as they landed in my small garden two of the magpies have finally came down near my feet to get some mealworms.They make their friendly cracking noise while on the fence when I call them hello maggypie! They are so clever! I also have 3 related jackdaws that come down as well,amazing!
I have been lucky enough to see a pair build there nest and it took them about three weeks carrying sticks two foot long and breaking them up. All day they would do this i was amazed at how dedicated they were. Two fledglings hatched and there parents are teaching them to fly love watching them now i feel like i am as happy as there parents they survived.
I just had one jump on my windowsill and stare at me through the window 😂🤣😂🤣 sadly I could get a picture in time it made me jump 🤣😂🤣😂
I currently have a family of six magpies in and around my garden. The couple have been successful at breeding for several years. I enjoy their antics and, when I put out mealworms in the feeders for the small garden birds, I throw a handful on the ground for them. They are very social and I am happy to encourage them. Garden birds are a treasure, cherish them.
They eat garden birds!
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I have befriended a pair of magpies that live in the trees around my home. They’ve been here as long as i have 17years this year! I have a small garden which attracts a lot of birds and one or two cats who like basking on a bench beneath some trees. The magpies keep watch for the cats and sound the alarm for the other birds and to let me know the cats are in the garden! So pleased i found your channel - i,m fascinated by my bird friends. I walked to the tube station and was waiting on the platform on a nice day last week it was as if the crows, magpies and wood pigeons had followed me. They fly very close to me when i am out walking almost as if to say hi. 🐦⬛
I have a small dog Emily, when she is outside sunning in the backyard. There is this Magpie who visits starts laughing or teasing Emily. She will bark at it and the Magpie will fly away.
I have a Pair come to my back garden and i feel kinda special now after watching and learning from this video. I am so happy to know that I could be helping to extend their lifespan by feeding them. We need to re-educate people to take away the superstition attatchéd to them. Many would become as fascinated as I was, after learning of their astounding intelligence and other traits.
Brilliant! I am glad you enjoyed the video and learnt something new.
Objections are not superstitions but the need and desire to curb their nasty aggressive ways that are damaging to other species. The more you feed them and enable them to breed and breed, the fewer songbirds we will have, The longer they live, the same
We've got magpies here in the US too! They're always getting into our trash bins... definitely smart creatures.
Are they the same species as this or the larger version?
@@AShotOfWildlife I’m in the us in idaho to be exact and the magpies here that I’ve seen look exactly like the ones in this video!!! Magpies are my favorite land animal!!
There are black-billed magpie (the one in usa also called american magpie) they look very similar to Eurasian magpie but they are not the same. All magpies are very intelligent and annoying birds.
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I love Magpies and have a had a breeding pair at the bottom of my garden for the last 8 years. A farmer friend once told me that more than one pair per 25 acres is too many, as they will predate on other birds. I enjoy capturing them in flight, especially when the sunlight brings out their true colours.
Fantastic vid...we feed magpies/other crows/jays/herring gulls/pigeons/sparrows several times every day with a combination of watered bread, mixed seed and high protein food such as scraps of fatty food like chicken, sausage pork or whatever else we may have to hand...ensure they never go hungry, particularly at this time of year.
We also have two resident squirrels we feed with monkey nuts which disappear in minutes.
We also feed several resident foxes every night with watered dog biscuits, tinned dog food and any other scraps we may have....they love raw eggs when we have them.
On top of this, we have an insulated, illuminated and heated large aviary at the end of our garden where we house and feed 4 rescue cockatiels from Raystede with bread/mixed seed and lettuce, which they love three times a day.
Finally, we have a beautiful 16 year old Shi'tzu/Cavalier dog, Bobby we have had since he was a puppy...he eats like a horse and just loves baked liver and sausages along with Cesar dog food.
I barely have time to feed myself!
Bob, Hove
These birds are very intelligent and are great team workers. I do not like them though as they bully and are destructive in their nature. I have observed them pulling out and throwing freshly planted onions and throwing other birds young out of nests without eating them. My cat mimics magpie noises to attract them in to catch them. I was amazed to see this for the first time.
I hate these horrid birds, I'm not in the UK but here they're not nice.
@@gloriadenning3860 I kill them all if it were legal
In 1983, when on my new motorcycle, I witnessed the very tragic sight of a magpie which had been killed by a car, its body crushed by other vehicles, and its partner constantly flying down and away from the traffic to where the remains lay in the road. I knew they paired for life and was extremely saddened by the incident.
Very sad! 😢😢😢
Yep , i saw the same behavior with indian mynahrs long ago . Tje implications just gotta change our whole frame of references. . However there's clearly been an evolutionary process since 1970s cos today we don't see mynahrs any more as road kill .
I have seen them attempt to rescue eachother from such situations. Abour three dragging an injured one to safety out of traffic but alas to no avail appeared to grieve around it
Michael Archangel, this is interesting. It seems like I read that Magpies mourn a lost member of the flock and will actually have a wake.
Glad it got crushed. Cant stand them.
Super-smart, super funny birds. Watching the youngsters play and chat to each other is a delight.
My special babies! There are loads where I live, a pair of them come and hop around in the garden every day. They're so pretty and shiny! And so cheeky looking
We always say, "good morning/afternoon Mr Magpie, have a nice day". Just something we were taught as kids to ward off bad luck, and though I'm not superstitious, I still do it. 😁👍
If you do it, you're superstitious.
Same
@@sos1474 what’s wrong with that?
Me too😊
I say hello hopalong because of the way they hop along
You realy have NO IDEA ! A pair of Magpies raise a singe young in January, this stays with the parents and acts as a third food gatherer to help feed the main brood later in the year. When the main brood hatch, the parents and eldest sibling will raid the nests of other birds, gathering eggs and chicks 2-3 times EVERY day until the start of June to feed the clutch. If you get up very early in the morning during this period and go to yor local park, you will see "gangs" of Magpies scaring other songbird parents off their nests and then making off with the eggs and young chicks. THIS is the single main reason for the decline in our native species in recent years ! The RSPB have got their heads up their Cloaca
I heard this before. They do terrorize other birds…I‘ve seen that in my garden. ..
At last, someone with some sense! I've witnessed a magpie taking chicks out of a blackbirds nest! Horrible birds! There needs to be a national cull of them.
Yep, they are evil cunning murderers 😡
I once had a Magpie enter an open bedroom window to steal something shiney on the window sill, it didn't know I was in the room as the curtain was closed, you can imagine the surprise it had when it realised I had seen it before helping it back outside. Lovely to see one up so close and hold one for a few seconds.
I used to have a magpie jackdaw pairing (presumably not a mating pair) who would fly down on to my balcony to eat dinner together every night, then fly off together. Was interesting behaviour!
Magpies, Crows and Jackdaws tend to follow each other around. I've seen them playing with each other many times.
Its cute the way they team up to pull fledgling songbirds out of their nests, eat the young live and taunt the parent bird before pulling them to shreds with claw and beak.
You said it right there. They are an absolute menace and there are far too many of them about nowadays. I'd rather have a garden full of blackbirds thrushes and robins then these evil bastards.
@@davidcopson5800 agreed. Between lonely cat enthusiasts and magpies, songbirds have a bleak future.
I have always said Good Morning Mr Magpie as far back as I can remember. They are regular visitors to our garden as we feed them along with the sparrows,robins ,wren, blackbirds, thrushes ,wood pigeons, collared doves and jackdaws.The jackdaws are the most nervous of them all.
Thanks Liam . Never seen your channel before today but we’ve just watched 6 or 7 of your vids. Love the format of telling the basics in a similar order for each bird. Helps to remember the information. Have learned loads in minutes. More power to you, mate. Would gladly watch you on Springwatch or something. Also, you have some great footage and you are meticulous in crediting the filter.Great work
In 2020, I went to the UK to give an exam ( the exam center was only based in the UK) and for the first time in my life I saw a magpie and I thought to my self what a beautiful bird ❤️ I passed my exam even though I saw a single magpie
That's a lovely story :)
Thanks for the vid. My cat quite appreciated it. Everyday I open my patio window and a magpie sits on my patio chair and natters at my cat.... my cat listens for a while... magpie gets quiet... and she natters back at him chirping like a bird. The magpie listens for a while and flies off. Every single day this keeps happening.
Cheers! They are very smart so perhaps by waiting for the cat to respond the magpie is ensuring where it is. Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment.
There's a pair of magpies in our garden. I call them Magnus and Marion. Magnus has been here since he was a young bird he isn't tame, but he is very bold and relaxed. We had an elderly cat Houdini, that was outside most of last summer and who we feed outside. Magnus would come right up and feed from the side of of the bowl alongside our cat! Magnus would defend the bowl from neighbouring or passing cats. Since Houdini died I still put food out for Magnus a couple of times a week. He will come tap on the conservatory or hop about calling under the kitchen window and ask for it. He seemed to mourn Houdini for a number of week when he died. The cat was buried in the garden and Magnus would fuss about the area where he was buried and pile twigs and leaves up there for several weeks. Marion and he are nested in our Garden this year, but nearly lost their young to a young Raven. They valiantly defended there nest though and one of the brood survived and has fledged.
Thanks Liam for sharing everything about the Magpies! Great compilation of facts and footage. Greetings and have a good day! // Bertil.
My mum grew up on a farm so i still say good morning mr magpie like a madman.
love your channel ,and love the Magpies ,I always salute a single Magpie if I see one and say Hi Mr. Magpie how's your wife and kids. I lived in Australia for years and migrated back to Cornwall 2 and a half years ago ,the Magpies in Oz have lovely singing voices. Finding your fabulous channel has helped me find out about the lovely birds, I also enjoyed your Robin ones...Many Blessings to you...
I have a magpie nest in my willow tree and today I saw a baby magpie sitting on a branch with mum, sitting so close together they were almost touching. Wonderful.
A Willow tree?, very unusual for a Magpie to use a Willow tree to nest in. And have you ever wondered why they put a roof over the nest?. Probably so other birds like Carrion crows cant see the eggs & get to them. Because when the song birds are nesting Magpies make a living taking eggs & killing chicks. I have a small number of Magpies around me where i live, as soon as the numbers get higher out come the Larsen traps & rifle!!
Amazing but the magpies are again building a nest in the willow tree in my garden and others are nesting in the trees in the park next to me. Fascinating birds to watch, to see them sitting close together and, last year, to see them sit as a little family with their chicks. Nature means birds of different sizes destroy smaller ones and steal eggs, that's the cycle of life and death. To think of deliberately killing magpies is hideous and illegal. I hope you are reported and fined heavily.
Magpies are very a beautiful Bird, thanks for this amazing video, Have a great week my friend 👍 Serge 🍁
Excellent stuff ! Corvids are amazing birds. Many people are quick to point out their 'bad's points, but the fact that in the wild they don't live many years although capable of living decades (especially ravens) shows how hard it is just to eek out a living - like us dying before our thirties.
Whats a corvid? I've never heard of that.
@@Waseemmmm Corvids or corvidae is the scientific term for passerine birds. This genus include crows, magpies, jackdaws, ravens, jays, rooks, the list goes on.
@@Waseemmmm These are the ones I don't like to see too many of, as you will experience a decline in songbirds in your garden if there are too many around. It's the 'nature and the apex predator' issue.
Love magpies,beautiful cheeky birds
I adore them. Wonderful little dinosaurs.
You have to admire them, if for their intelligence alone.
I dont really like them, they kill smaller birds and kill the babies
@@TopTechSavvy the weak must die
It's clearly a bird.
I used to keep getting coconut feeders taken from my bird feeder on a regular basis. One day I caught the culprit! A magpie! It’s meant coming up with more challenging ways of keeping feeders attached to the feeding station. For me it shows how we under estimate and under value the intelligence in the natural world!
Not intelligence... simply hunger. Even the dullest person can find essentials like food
@@islanddweller3674 still has to work out how to unhook it from the bird feeder. In other experiments crows have been presented with multiple stage puzzles to gain access to food. They succeed. That’s intelligence. Working out the stages required to gain access to a food reward.
I rescued a disabled magpie 4 weeks ago... Arthur is very much my baby now and I absolutely adore him ❤
Thank you for this video. I love being outdoors in nature. I love watching magpies. I think the most I’ve seen is about 30-40. You have a new subscriber 💜😁
We had a magpie who worked out that our cat was harmless and her food was put out in our conservatory. The door to the conservatory was open a small amount and some birds would get in and be unable to get out without help. The magpie was able to walk in, ignore the cat, eat her food and walk out again.
@Jazzmaster Jay Not this one. Harassed by magpies.
@Jazzmaster Jay Exactly, they are very destructive.. there should be a law restricting the number per household to ONE.
@@sunnyjim1355 My cat would agreee with you. He would outlaw any competitors for my affection, or food.
There's a pair of magpies in our garden. I call them Magnus and Marion. Magnus has been here since he was a young bird he isn't tame, but he is very bold and relaxed. We had an elderly cat Houdini, that was outside most of last summer and who we feed outside. Magnus would come right up and feed from the side of of the bowl alongside our cat! Magnus would defend the bowl from neighbouring or passing cats. Since Houdini died I still put food out for Magnus a couple of times a week. He will come tap on the conservatory or hop about calling under the kitchen window and ask for it. He seemed to mourn Houdini for a number of week when he died. The cat was buried in the garden and Magnus would fuss about the area where he was buried and pile twigs and leaves up there for several weeks. Marion and he are nested in our Garden this year, but nearly lost their young to a young Raven. They valiantly defended there nest though and one of the brood survived and has fledged.
@@NikiHolmes Nice story.
I have a family of Maggie’s who come every day for their breakfast they bring me little feathers & stones to say thank you they’re so lovely
Thats great. Do you keep their gifts and is there any pattern in what they give you? Same coloured stones or feathers for example?
Magpies are fabulous birds, always fascinating to watch. Great video, very interesting.
I love magpies, very intelligent birds and very loyal.
Thank-you for great video.
Respect to all our wild life out there,how they must struggle each day, to survive that very often, harsh environment.
Today I saw 4 magpies and was really blown back by their feathers. They're really beautiful.
They are, yet we don't see the feathers in their best light!
If the light catches them just right, our eyes can pick up that they're somewhat iridescent but, because we can't see UV light and other parts of the spectrum in the way birds can, we don't see them in their full glory.
Awwww! I simply love magpies. They are so magnificent. Your photography is simply amazing and the information is appreciated. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you very much I found your program was very informative !👍
Amazing video. I'm surprised you have so few subscribers!
What a brilliant channel! Thanks Liam.
Cheers. I hope you carry on enjoying it :)
Love your videos. So informative!!!
I have two beautiful magpies that have come to visit regularly. One perhaps the male more frequently.
My cat runs out excited to see him and very quietly just sits and watches. Mr Magpie has been bringing my cat little sticks and pieces of paper and drops it down off the patio railing for him. Kinda like a gift .
I went out with a few selections of seeds and placed them on the railing post. He came by and garbled away as if to talk to me and thanked me for the food.
He has become a regular and so very much enjoyed. He really sounds like he is trying very hard to have a conversation back when I gently talk to him .
My friend's daughter became a surrogate mommy for a baby Magpie that had fallen from it's nest. That was 10 years ago and they still have the magpie. They keep it in a cage in their living room. That bird was the most talkative and interactive bird I've ever seen. By "talk", I mean talk, as in "Polly want a cracker". I never knew that Magpies, like parrots, could be taught words and phrases. This Magpie, however, could speak complete sentences with amazing clarity. Better, in fact, that any parrot I've ever heard. I was truly impressed.
What a fun life for a magpie...living in a cage.
It shouldn't be in a cage! It's a wild bird and needs other Magpies.
Such an amazing shot of this bird! Thanks for sharing friend!
Thank you!
What a lovely endearing story. I consciously always look for 2 magpies when I'm out luv n light x
Liam, you're a delight! Thank you for these viideos.
Thank you :) I have lots of other videos lined up so hopefully you'll stay tuned and keep on enjoying them.
Hey Liam, really good again !
Thanks mate.
I used to believe in the superstitions but not any more. I find just as much Joy from seeing 1 magpie as I do with 2. They have always been my favourite bird and they always will be ❤️
Thank you for this video! Cheers, Mate :)
We have a nest in the bottom of our garden. The magpies are very clever they fly into the tree at the bottom and climb uup through the branches to the top where the nest is. It seams as if they are trying to hide their location. We also have a bird bath and watch them having a drink and bathing a very fasinating bird. Looking forward to seeing the young ones.
What a lovely sweet informative video with a equally lovely host
Thank you :) perhaps you'll also enjoy some of my other videos.
Beautiful birds
The Australian Magpies are more agressive than their European variety. In October / November nesting season down under, they will attack you by swooping at you from behind, as they see all oncomers as threats to their nests and young. People in NSW and Queensland have been attacked with one or two fatalities where cyclists lost their balance. In order to counteract the attacks, a face likeness mask can be worn on the back of the head, and in that case the Magpie will avoid 'eye' contact. I had been attacked a few times in Sydney, so during the nesting season, I just went a different route to work by bike avoiding parklands. In Ireland we have many Magpies here in my back garden, and they appear to be very hard working looking for insects below sheds and fences, and very sharp-eyed. Slightest movement inside the house, and they're off. I usually leave water out for them, and they enjoy that, and a few crumbs.
Thank you for sharing and caring ❤
Thanks Liam.
I saw only one Magpie one day, so I did what you had told us about.
I flapped my arms and pretended to be another Magpie.
I fell off the bird table and broke my leg.
so it really is bad luck then
@@raycroal It certainly was for the little old lady who was filling up the peanut holders behind me.
Her funeral was well attended three days later.
The silver cloud was that had it not been for her breaking my fall, I would have broken my hip too.
@@raycope2086 [breaks into song]: its the circle of life....
@@raycope2086 are you sure she didn't die of corvid 19?? i bet they put that on the certificate anyway, the vultures!
@@raycroal : - )
Very informative.
I have seen a few of your bird videos, respectfully may I make a suggestion?
Have you considered adding a few examples of the call of the bird under description?
I would find this very helpful, and am sure others viewers would also.
Hiya Liam, Thanks very much for a great video, from a new subscriber in Lancashire.
Thanks Liam for a really good video,
Finally I know the name of the beautiful birds come nearby my window 😂 They're quit scardy though 😅 they live grapes and fruit too, unlike pigeons, which are crazy about bread like humans 😂
I have the same pair coming into my garden for the last 5 years - long may they continue to do so 😎
Great video, thank you. Magpies are truly beautiful birds, one of my favourites.
Magpies so familiar in England... just so good to see them everyday it's like they watch over us... I've always liked them
I always look away & look back again as then you can count two magpies 😊
Problem solved! Haha.
Cool, been waiting for the magpie. Could you do the Jackdaw next?
Thanks Matt. I will do the Jackdaw at some point but haven’t got enough footage of them yet. I think the next will either be muntjac, starling or common lizard.
I've seen and heard many magpies, many days, for months since January this year. Some days one, others two, others four others none or many. I asked for them, ravens and crows. They weren't common in my area. Even seeing a single one of these animals is a blessing. It's the sign life surpasses scientific speculations and superstitions.
I tried the arm flapping but I ended up crashing my car. 😂