Besides they were beset by clouds of voracious magpies, who were bent on devouring them alive. |
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The brain-to-body ratio of crows, ravens and magpies equals that of dolphins and nearly matches humans. |
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Apparently Australian and English magpies are not close cousins although they have similar feathering. |
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See six magpies and win the national lottery, see seven and your hands are blown off by a parcel bomb. |
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At nesting time the parents become bold and pugnacious attacking crows, magpies, cuckoos and kestrels crossing their territory. |
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Garden birds need undergrowth to hide and rest in and nest sites in your large hedge, away from the prying eyes of the magpies. |
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Seemingly invisible on our horses we rode amongst azure-winged magpies, great bustard, hoopoes and a hundred other species of birds. |
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The garden magpies are going spare just now, burying seeds and nuts in random places. |
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We have been investigating the consequences of flying with elongated tails in swallows, pheasants, magpies, sunbirds and sugarbirds. |
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All the while the distinctive bird, which has a bright red tail, faced the wrath of swooping magpies. |
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In addition to the Magpie-larks, currawongs, and magpies, I saw a Little Pied Cormorant diving for fish. |
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Great Horned Owls do not build their own nests, but use nests built by hawks, crows, magpies, herons, or other large birds. |
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Indeed, just now there are too many acorns for even such greedy birds as crows and magpies. |
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The patterns displayed the dragon, the phoenix, cranes and magpies, all auspicious animals representing nobility, luck, fortune and longevity. |
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There was a pack of them gathered around the Sale table, squawking over pillowslips and linen tablecloths like magpies over a sandwich crust. |
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In learning to escape the vigilance of crows, birds also avoid the attention of some other predators, such as jays and magpies. |
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There was the occasional chatter of magpies or jays, and once the bobbing flight of a greater spotted woodpecker. |
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The campus, which was once a barren patch of land, was converted into a haven for magpies and robins and blue jays in a short span of 30 years. |
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The corvids of North America consist of one species of jackdaw, four crows, two ravens, one nutcracker, two magpies, and ten species of jays. |
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Just 40 metres away was the lynx, sharing its meal with some noisy magpies. |
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Mr Fletcher said that a number of people had been caught keeping wild birds, particularly finches and magpies, as pets. |
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If we do not get magpies under better control the damage they do to other birds eggs and newly-hatched chicks will continue. |
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A pair of long-tailed magpies is building a nest in the trees along the millstream that runs down from the hills and through town. |
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Disturbance after eggs are laid provides opportunities for predation by carrion crows, jays, kestrels, magpies, foxes and mink. |
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Then, like magpies, they hurry back to their workshop loaded with wisps of lace and coils of steel mesh, strands of silk and ropes of jute. |
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He said the proliferation of Corvids birds like grey crows, magpies and rooks could be directly linked to the decline in songbirds in the area. |
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Long-eared Owls usually nest in abandoned stick nests, often the nests of magpies, crows, ravens, or hawks. |
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After the first broadcast, which you recall was on mimicry of Australian magpies. |
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Put bluntly, these birds, which include crows, ravens, magpies, and jays, can be real jerks. |
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Carcasses left by wolves supply food for scavengers such as ravens, eagles, magpies, and wolverines. |
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It also eats birds such as magpies and pigeons, rodents, wild boar and young deer. |
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The four carved tiles directly below the hood depict pairs of magpies, phoenixes, mandarin ducks, and swallows, all symbols of harmonious matrimonial union. |
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There are 113 members of the avian family called Corvidae, or corvids, which includes crows, jackdaws, rooks, ravens, as well as jays, nutcrackers and magpies. |
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All around the greedy jackjaws, blackbirds, thrushes and magpies eye the ripening fruit and at the exact moment that the fruit ripens they pounce leaving nothing but pips. |
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Like jays and crows, their cousins, magpies are mischievous and bold. |
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With the exception of magpies and pigeons, birds are rarely seen in gardens, but the talk included pictures of all kinds of birds in their natural habitats. |
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The pair compared data from studies covering 18 different species, including dwarf mongooses, meerkats, Florida scrub jays, western bluebirds, and Australian magpies. |
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But when you get to magpies or butcherbirds the training period becomes longer, so in fact magpies have to learn for about 5 years before they are ready to breed. |
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The pair of magpies I watched from the bus stop came back after the snow and are well settled in their rough ball of mud and sticks over the millstream. |
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You can see exotic birds like cuckoos, owls, nightjars, barbets, hoopoe, yellow-billed magpies and black-capped sibias and mammals including langurs and furry pikas. |
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The Corvidae family of birds such as crows, blue and grey jays, ravens and magpies are particularly susceptible to illness and death from West Nile Virus. |
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The odour of urine and rotting food emanating from the denning area often attracts scavenging birds such as magpies and ravens. |
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Species hardest hit appear to be blue jays, American crows, black-billed magpies, tufted tit-mice, and black-capped and Carolina chickadees. |
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Highest mortalities are seen in the corvid family, which include jays, magpies and crows. |
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Woodcocks, chaffinches, magpies, cuckoos, golden orioles, wood warblers and hawfinches are also among the 43 species affected. |
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Species represented at the sites include ravens, crows, rooks, magpies, jackdaws, various types of eagle and vulture, red and black kites, kestrels and falcons. |
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The squirrels hate him anyway, on account of his digging out their pine nut caches, and the magpies and jays and camp robbers will alway scold him as long as he is in sight. |
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Ravens are songbirds belonging to the corvid family like crows and magpies, and they surpass most of the other avian species in terms of intelligence. |
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They spotted not only common birds like blackbirds, magpies, wrens and robins, but rare breeds including red kite, linnet, tree pipit and ring-necked parakeet. |
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