She's free to fly but always returns to the home of the family who rescued her. Penguin, the magpie pictured here, is considered family by Cameron Bloom, his wife and sons. Cameron Bloom Photography & ...

Joshua Kristian McCoy is a freelance writer and film critic from the United States. He is a lifelong film buff, a voting member of the Georgia Film Critics Association, a tournament-winning Smash Bros ...

Thank you so much for joining us today as we crowned Australia's favourite animal sound! A huge thank you to my ABC Science colleagues, editor Jonathan Webb and journalist Kylie Andrews, for providing ...

On December 13, 2025, in Tianjin, China, @80Bǎomā shared a video of a magpie and a young boy. In the video, the bird is seen ...

In the late 1960s, while the world preoccupied itself with rock-'n'-roll and flower power and moon landings, a small bird far out in the Indian Ocean came within a hair's breadth of vanishing forever.

Geoff Maslen was riding his bike to the gym on a beautiful spring day in Melbourne, Australia when he started to feel something pinging off the back of his helmet. At first, he was confused by the ...

An Australian woman has recalled how she was left permanently blind after a magpie poked her eye. The woman named Kristy recounted the moment on TikTok while reacting to a video of influencer Sarah ...

An Australian man suffered serious eye injuries in an attack by a magpie as he was eating lunch outside and refused to share his food with the bird. James Glindemann, 68, was sat on a park bench in ...