Lightly tapping on her head, Jellybean the magpie roused her former caregiver enough to call her husband to help ...

Australians are well accustomed to swooping birds - there are plovers, noisy miners and even the kookaburra. But magpies are considered the ultimate "swoopy boy" and few people are without a story.

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 ...

Maintaining the “Magpie Murders” main title mystery: The clues, the murders and a bird masquerade Ben Hanbury spoke to Salon about his design inspirations for the murder mystery opening credits ...

A fossil discovery of an ancient relative of the Australian magpie which lived in New Zealand some 19 million years ago ...

Two new photographs of Molly the magpie have been uploaded to social media after the bird was returned to a Gold Coast couple on Monday. They show the Insta-famous bird reunited with pet dogs ...

“Peggy and Molly” were a match made for the internet. Peggy is a stout and muscular Staffordshire bull terrier, and Molly is a magpie, an Australian bird best known for swooping on humans ...

While tempting to feed your local magpie, it can be a "death sentence" for the birds, wildlife rescuers warn.

The lone magpie was spotted walking along a road with its legs covered in scaly leg mite, a condition caused by the burrowing mite Knemidocoptes mutans. It leaves the bird with hardened, crusted ...