Magpies are even smarter than you think | The Secret Lives Of Our Urban Birds
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I hate her
She needs to be swooped
The sound of warbling magpies is the most beautiful noise.
I had a magpie, called Heckle, come to my door and warble for me to feed her. My friends would say: “Go out and feed it.” And I tell them I’ll wait until she starts swearing! They said: “Ah, c’mon, your kidding us.” Finally the soft warbling went from 🎶🎶🎶 to 🎵🎵🎵 and they said: “You’re right, she does swear!”
The classic sound of an Australian morning!
Oh there's FAR FAR better bird calls.
More beautiful than the nightingale or the skylark by far
It's two notes in harmony ..is why it sounds so rich
I fed a few generations of magpies at my old house, They where all from the same family at one point there was about 8 of them. I would mix mince meat with an insect feed i brought at a local vet/pet shop and throw it to them out on the grass. It got to the point where they would tap on the glass back door to let me know when they wanted food a couple of times they even waddled into the house where they found me cooking dinner. The mother magpie would allow me and only me to hand feed her and she even let me pat her a few times. Every one or two years she would bring her new baby fluff ball down and allow me to feed them under her close supervision. This went on for 12+ years.
We raised a magpie chick that had fallen out of a tree during a.storm. (He, or she) used to perch on a curtain rod in my kitchen, and warble along to my CDs. Bob Dylan was a special favourite.😊.
I have a two magpies that visit me every day about 4 times . They even walk all through the house looking for food 😂 I can even call them from 100 metres away and they fly to me and land on my balcony . Love them . They’re my little wild pet buddies without the vet bills 😊
You are so fortunate to have them where you live. They exist in the US but only in very few places.
They’re quite amazing.
About 6 months ago, a magpie came to the entrance of our factory - it looked I’ll. I gave it some water and some crushed up biscuits which it ate once I gave it some space. Fast forward to now and it’s here everyday with 4 others as soon as we arrive. I give them food every morning and now all 5 eat out of my hand. What’s more amazing is that when it’s cold, they’ll come into the factory and just sit and chill. Sometimes, they even walk into the office if no one’s in the workshop just to see that we’re there.
Hi, Jamie. If you help a sick or injured magpie, you’ve got a friend for life. Plus I’ve never heard of a magpie that accepts food from you ever swooping you during the nesting season.
The magpies have trained you very well
@@superlight7654 I had a chuckle over your comment. I’ve entertained the notion that when I pride myself on getting a magpie to jump onto the rim of my open car boot, it may be a case of a magpie thinking it has trained me to feed it in the most comfortable and civilised manner !!
And I’ve had magpies make it quite plain they want the food handed to them and not dropped on the ground ... 🤔 hmm, maybe they HAVE trained me !!
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I love reading about your magpie story.
I love magpies. We had a male magpie in our street that was the “Dirty Harry” of magpies, but proved to be an old softie. It took on several birds at once and got beaten up badly, covered in blood. I fed him during the recovery phases and now he loves me. On command he’ll perch on my knee, or hop on a low bench or jump onto the rim of my open car boot, all for just a morsel of food. If you have a particular whistle for something, magpies will remember this. Like cats or dogs, they will understand 4 or 5 spoken words i.e. “more” means more food, but I learned not to say “no more” but rather “that’s all” when I had no food left.
And they have unbelievable memories. Had a pet magpie but she flew away. Some years later we recognised each other at the local shopping centre carpark. It was like old times. She would take food from my hand, walk through the carpark with me, hop in my car, etc. She became a minor tourist attraction, but sadly suffered a broken wing and was gotten by a predator before I could organise a rescue.
I just moved house two months ago. A family of Magpies which loves my backyard have been training me on a daily basis. I hope I pass and eventually graduate as ‘their’ tame human ☺️
Lucky you, I hope it's going well.
They mind-control their humans!!
That made me laugh, you know your maggies.
Thankyou.
You can do it!
We feed 25 magpies everyday - and they are pure joy. One - big Mama who is the one that first decided to walk into our house and eat some cat food - makes herself known every day and loves to eat out of our hand. They sing their hearts out for us, play, squabble and poo on the deck,but it is easy to hide the poo off. The magic they bring is just glorious.
I have a pretty cool story about magpies. While living in Cannington Perth, I grew quite close to a family of magpies who spent a lot of time on my front lawn. One day I heard the magpies out the front making an almighty Ruckus. Singing much louder and more fiercely than usual. So I went out to see what was happening and the entire family was lined up in front of me. And between them and me was there new baby and after I had seen the baby they flew off. It was like some kind of ceremony. After that they would leave the baby under the tree and take off when I was home. It was Awesome. And then The exact same thing happened when I was living in a different house in Gosnells, all of it exactly the same. I have a theory that some of the aboriginal tribes had some sort of symbiotic relationship with the magpies
Wow! What a story.
I live in cannington as well.. Mayb your magpie family visit me now. They are here quite often
Wow amazing story, I love all animals but I really love magpies, they are so clever and what you just said is a brilliant story, I believe they were actually calling you to show you their baby, thanks for sharing your story.
@@amigomac5790 I have 7 in the garden at the moment, 2 days ago i was a bit late taking out the door, and 1 flew into the conservatory and knocked over paperwork on the table.
That makes you feel good. I started feeding a magpie a few years ago, and had the same experience. About three generations of chicks have been brought for showing to me, and also explaining to the chicks that they can get food from this gullible person. The best bit is that this is 'safe' territory because they also have left the chicks in my yard for babysitting. I know they have also observed me chasing off the local Kurrawong thug trying to attack other smaller birds in my yard.
Immigrated into Perth September 1983. Awakening on our first morning we were greeted with warbling Magpies. Memorable.
Magpies bring joy to my life every day
Amazing creatures 😍
I've moved to the desert out of their range ... I miss my magpie friends. There are beautiful butcherbirds & pheasant coucals to admire, but it's not quite the same as interacting with a magpie.
I love Maggies. We have a pair that live in the park near our yard, we feed them intermittently and they bring their babies every year
I’ve had the same family of magpies visit me for 20 years. Individuals have come and gone, and I’ve named them all and welcome them at the same time every afternoon for cashews and mealworms. My 9 year old daughter loves them too. Currently we have Peach (M), Pumpkin (F), Cherry (F) and Blackberry (juvenile F). Can’t wait for this season’s babies!
My gosh I love magpies. I taught myself to whistle their warble song. They are very curious when a human speaks to them. I've even stopped one mid-swoop my whistling this to them.
I do the same when they are caroling (the correct word instead of warbling).
I have three magpie friends who visit every day, we have a chat , we share a meal and we understand each other. These birds remember people and know who is friend and who is not. They even protect me from other birds who come close. Love them .
They’re protecting their food territory
Magpies are Corvids, the brainiacs of the bird world!
I saw a bunch of Magpies recently having a territorial dispute. A flock of Noisy Minors came to aid their Magpie mates and harassed the intruders till they left. It was all very vicious!
In my backyard a male follows my ride-on mower closely and shows no fear of the noisy machine, obviously aids in his search for worms and grubs etc. ALSO, the Noisy Minors that appear to harass the Magpies seem to have some sort of relationship despite the animosity they show each other as I've seen the Magpies leave tidbits for the Minors and Butcher birds. All very peculiar.
I had some magpies which would come around to my house and tap on my kitchen window with their beeks. One of those magpies had a lot of different calls including that of a horse, as there were horses across the road from us. When I heard this it floored me, quite amazing!
They can be smart, sweet, funny playfull and curious.
In my backyard one day with the dog. A young magpie buzzed the dog by swooping under his chin, then perched on the fence and gave a very un-maggie human type whistle. Put the dog inside and retrieved a digging tool. My garden beds were thickly mulched, so I pulled some of it away and did a bit of digging. The bird perched on the handle of the tool and watched the ground intently.
And so it went, she’d do the same whistle and I’d obediently dig up some worms for her. She was a girl, it turned out. Then, one day I was pegging washing on the line and she landed on the line next to me and whistled. I said to her that she’d have to wait til I finished. So she took a peg out of the basket and flew down to the garden bed, put the peg down and LOOKED at me.
She would perch on a very tall tree on the street behind me, where she had a good view of my back door. If I looked over and could see a bird there, not knowing if it was her since it was too far away, I would do her special whistle and she’d immediately launch and glide right down in front of me.
She came the next few years with her husband and two chicks.
One year the older bird with her was not yet in his adult feathers and I have the theory her husband was dead and this guy was perhaps her last years child, pressed into service to help shove worms down this years chicks throats.
Then one day I saw she had bird netting twisted around her leg, which was swollen and obviously painful as she’d tuck it up to her belly. So I had to trap her under a laundry basket and take her to a vet. Took her back home and her husband and chicks were there waiting.
She didn’t trust me after that but still came when I called, just wouldn’t come to my hand.
Then one year she didn’t come.
Darn it. That last line got me. I had a galah who would feed out of my hand. Mrs Chuff (the sound she made). She had terrible feet; as though she'd been born with a disability in both feet, or had them accidentally mangled somehow, but she still hobbled around. None of the other galahs come near me, but she'd sit on my clothesline and "chuff chuff" at me until I got her her special own seeds. She had a big feed out of my hand one afternoon, bit me as usual (once she'd had enough, she'd give me a small bite, not terribly hard "That's enough") then flew off. I've never seen her since and I'm always sad. I loved her. She was so brave.
We have 4 different magpie territories near our farm house.
We are accepted by the ones closest to the house even in nesting season.
The same pair used to bring the kids to meet us every year until the girl lost her foot in what I assume was a turf war.
She lived another couple of years with only one foot but never bread again.
The ones further out swoop our dogs but not the people.
I’m sure they recognise individual people as well.
They are very nice birds when they get to know you. 🤠
Love them! They’re lovely little souls. If they know you are kind they will happily bond with you, and even defend you.
If you have a magpie in your area that you go through quite often make sure you let the magpie know you are there every time, during swooping season alert early and often and they will not swoop you, just let them know you are there and only moving through and they will learn you are not a threat
I have been feeding the same magpie for over 30 yrs. It eats out of my hand. I have another magpie at work who follows me inside. They are such friendly loyal birds
My favourites.
I have a family of Magpies that visit me daily.
If l leave a door open, they wander in.
There’s a small family of magpies just outside my work (two parents and one child), I always hand feed them food and they just walk up to me as if they’re asking for them, they’ve also memorised our break times and they usually go out when we’re outside
They're so clever!
My "family" of magpies l have also know and understand vehicles. If I drive my white ute when coming home, they will generally be in the tree right next to my doorway. If I drive my partners car, they are nowhere to be seen...until they invariably turn up within a few hours
@@ozpilotgirl Great hearing, great eyesight and a fairly large brain to body size, I believe they're one of the few animals that actually teach their young and other members information/knowledge that previous magpies taught them because their communication is advanced enough for it. Impressive
A superb video .The Australian Magpie is not a Corvid but have to say that blessed are we in Berlin , to have many Corvus cornix. Extremely intelligent and always displaying their social skills and interaction .Birds are fascinating , as was your video . Greetings from Berlin ( Germany. )
Hi Helena, greetings from Australia!
I love the cacophany of sounds that the birds make around Lennox Heads beach every morning. So chaotically beautiful.
Where I live at the moment, me and my brother always get the entire family of Magpies coming up to our front door, so we give them dog food meat roll diced up that has vegetables in it. They absolutely love that and turn up on daily basis for a feed. At times, I've even noticed that they will follow you where you go (like keeping track of where you are and go). But yes, we get the babies coming around, the mother and also the father. The babies and the father come right up to us and it's always a joy just seeing them. Sometimes, my brother might work on his car with his radio going. The Magpies will sit in the tree just beside the fence and watch what my brother is doing......and sometimes make a lot of noise whilst at it!😂😂 Gotta admit, they're a fantastic bird! Lately though, we've also been getting a Crow, a Minor Bird and a Kingfisher hanging around as well! Maybe that's because we throw our scraps beside the fence and they think, "Food!"😂😂
The full documentary this is part of was a great watch! Was swooped as a kid but learnt to respect their territory and to socialise with them and now we get along just fine! It's great to read about everyone's stories and interactions with magpies
What amazing, beautiful birds! All of you in Australia should count yourselves lucky to live where there is such a wealth and diverse group of bird species!
I thank God regularly. We are blessed with some of the coolest birds on the planet.
Thank you from Australia. Many of us do appreciate and revere our native species. Not sure where you are, but maybe one day you can come see our lovely animals for yourself. Bless
We have the largest number of bird species of any continent, at almost 900 known species.
@@darrynreid4500 good comment. Australian who had no idea of that.
I live in Forest Hill, Melbourne, Australia. I have 24 different species of birds visiting my backyard. We have nice grass for the Maggies to dig in, and wild bird seed for all the parrots. As I sit here looking out the window there are about 20 corella's lurking about... 10 minutes later, the corellas have left, replaced by 4 lorikeets (I love the way they hop like kangaroos). There's a native dove with them too. Here's my visitor book...
Butcher bird grey/brown
Cockatoo black / red tail
Cockatoo black / white tail
Cockatoo white / sulphur crested
Corella white / sulphur under wings
Crow
Currawong
Dove Aus native
Galah
Ibis
King Parrot
Kookaburra
Lorikeet
Magpie Melbourne version
Magpie small version mudlark?
Myna Australian
Myna Indian
Pigeon English?
Rosella Crimson
Rosella Eastern
Sparrow
Starling
Wattle bird
Unidentifiable
Very small wren type brown bird probably female.
They are Royalty among Australian birds.
Highly intelligent, resourceful, polite, loyal, sociable and full of personality.
I've had several families around where I've lived in recent years.
They will make a big effort to get along with humans if they see a chance to gain territory in your garden or yard.
Put a bird bath out with clean fresh water and offer them some crickets or grasshoppers and you've made a lifelong friend.
I grew up with a pet magpie called Jacko. He was very intelligent, smartest dog that I have ever had...
There is a video on here of a lady who rescued a young magpie in her home, which had to share with her pet Staffordshire Terrier - the magpie thought it was also a dog and even impersonated a bark - it's funny to watch a magpie go "woof woof woof"
My grandmother had a pet magpie that she taught to speak.
I have learn't two things about Magpies. One, they live in the same area for generations at a time. I've lived at the same address for over 13 years & because they know I am no threat to them, I have never been swooped even when they're most protective of their young & this relates to my second fact. They never forget a face. I'd also like to add that irrespective of gender, all my local magpies are called "Maggie".
Ours are Charlie haha. Counted >8 Charlie's haha
Professor Gisela Kaplan has done fascinating behavioural studies of Australian magpies. It would be nice to interview her on ‘What the Duck’ or ABC Science.
They are brave and friendly and have learnt the secret of asking for food and come to expect even demand
I visited my parents at their new home 15 plus years ago, and I would get swooped all the time unless I am wearing a hat, after finding Rambo my kitten back then I got tired of being swooped so I throw a handful of dry cat food, it worked a treat I set up a feeding station and finally I could come and go with no hat on and not get swooped. One thing I did learn over the years they hate whiskers dry cat food but lover friskies fish blend over any of their other blends. They eat all the fish shaped ones first before resorting to eating the other ones.
Now when they want some of the cats food they come and sit on the table on the front porch and sing to me 😊 I have lost count the number of generations of magpies that have been come over everyday for their morning snack since the very first couple all those years ago, I have last years young female with her partner calling everyday, they have been collecting for their nest so it won’t be long before I will get to met their offspring. Took years to workout the differences between the sexes, she is smaller than her partner and he has a very long very hooked beak.
They are not the only birds that visit everyday, I get kingfishers, butcher birds, Australian minor birds, and so many others that I still need to identify, and they each have been bringing their offspring over for me to meet.
They don’t eat much most of the year, but during the nesting season when it’s been really dry it’s been a constant source of food for all the birds, when we have had enough rain to help with their food source they don’t use much at all and it can last for days before I have to add more food. They don’t rely on me totally, that had been my biggest fear, but they do use it very early in the mornings and last thing at night, then they spend the day looking for food in their usual hunting areas. Now I wait for them to let me know when they want the dust topped up, I love to hear them sing.
I find butcher birds equally intelligent and they sing just as well. I love how they chatter to each other when feeding.
I heard a butcher bird sing on the railing of my house during a rain storm (getting out of the rain). He was making some strange noises (as though he was muttering to himself) so I paid closer attention, and he was replaying every sound he heard in his territory, including my yappy dog barking, me calling my yappy dog (she was called Bella, and he was saying "Bella Bella!!!"), the kookaburras, the magpies, the guy who did metalworking down the back of our property - EVERY SINGLE SOUND he'd heard. And then he'd repeat. I theorized he was aurally marking out his territory - reminding himself of all who lived there. He knew every living being that was in his patch. And he also sang his own particular song, in amongst all the other strange sounds. It was amazing and I was really upset I didn't have some recording equipment.
@@Kayenne54 all birds understand the language of all other birds ..
@@oftin_wong Yes for sure. The Noisy Minahs warn everyone when there is a predator of any kind around. I see all the other birds go on alert when they hear that call.
@@oftin_wong It is when all the birds and insects go silent, that humans should pay attention.
@@Kayenne54 my chickens that I've had since they were little pullets ...have learnt for themselves all the other bird noises that warn about the goshawk ...that's their main concern lol, it's very instinctual
Oh and they know when I'm feeding the magpies too they come running
Love my magpie mates. They visit my house and garage every day. The male has known me personally for 4 years and will happily take a meaty treat from my hand. Have had the privilidge of seeing him raise several young birds now. Sometimes 1, sometimes 3!! His female partner wont come close to me, but will visit most days also. Old mate walks into my garage these days and pokes around quite often. I train in my garage, and often will walk in to find him sitting on the safety rails of the squat rack! Or on the back of a camp chair i setup. He has no fear - not even of my dogs who attempt to eat him constantly - i think he finds it fun....The interesting thing, is that he wont go near other neighbors. Always funny to them when he lands on my front lawn outside my home office and calls out! And sure enough, out i go to say gday, haha. 100% certain if i left the door open he'd let himself in.
another thing i love about him, is that he keeps the myna birds away now. He's attacked them so many times they no longer come near the garage.
The most amazing thing is that i can him also, i just whistle and click my fingers loudly and he appears out of whatever tree he was chilling out in lol - assuming he is home of course. Easily the most intelligent wild animal ive encountered. infact he is out the front right now, pulling grubs out of my lawn.
Magpies love to attack me in spring. They have been attacking me since I was a little kid. Despite this I just adore them. My favourite bird.
I had a magpie that used to visit me while studying for a year straight. It would fly right up me and just sit with me for 20m straight everyday. It was really fun and a unique experience.
Every time there's a heavy rainstorms or thunder I get these same four magpies sit under my patio cover that glare at me through the kitchen window. They make their occasional magpie calls while perched as if asking for food. I enjoy their company.
Haha, read some time ago about an experiment where tiny tracker knapsacks were put on magpies and they proceeded to remove them from each other
I thought that was a very “Frankenpie” experiment. Seriously, it was quite cruel and unnecessary. Score one for the magpies.
I play RUclips videos of magpies singing when I’m feeling homesick
Dear Dani, that’s the big thing that keeps me at my Australian suburb. I’ve got magpie friends at home and at the shopping centre. I love it when they sing to me. I love it when they trust you and take food from your hand but also eat it at your feet because they like your company.
If I lived away from Australia, the sound of magpies carolling would bring tears to my eyes. I really love these birds.
I'm on a boat on the Goldie (there's an ABC interview with me regarding the bay and the environment) and the Maggies visit me every day. They are so comfortable with me that my 16 year old pug fascinates them. Very interesting birds. I talk to the government bird surveyors where I supply information about many protected species here. Just to update the story, the waterways authority have conceded. I cannot be legally moved now without court proceedings. I will be pulling my full credentials then.
Hey, cool doco.. Magpies are awesome!!
Quick question.. Do you know what the violin backing track was used at the end there?
In the transcript it’s the ‘music’ at 5:23.
If you can let us know that’d be grand! I wanna play it to my magpie friends out the back here 🤘
Love Maggies, my favourite birds. On 2 occasions on a summer's day, 3 maggies came to my opened front door and very loudly sang. It was the best ❤❤❤
Magpies are a beloved bird that helps shape our Australian identity.
I would love to watch a full length documentary on the magpie ❤
Forty years ago, while in grad school in in Edmonton Alberta, I was strolling across campus when something whisked by me. It was clearly alive, from the way it moved, but it happened so fast I couldn't tell if it was a bird, a butterfly or what. A few seconds later, a magpie zipped by in front of me, in the same direction as what had just flown past. I turned and saw some sort of ruckus in some nearby bushes. I walked over, and there was the magpie tearing on the flesh of a bat it had under its foot. It had chased the bat, caught it and killed it.
I mentioned the incident to an ornithologist in the biology department. He told me that magpies *had* been seen, dining on carrion, but no one had been able to tell if the "food under foot" was simply found, or had been caught by them. My own sighting was, however, evidence that a magpie could and would "hunt". He surmised that there was a bat roost under the eaves of the campus building I was near (something that was known about), and that the magpie had learned he could get a freebie by spooking a bat during daylight hours, when it would be disriented.
I didn't know Canada had magpies. That's one quick maggie.
@@Kayenne54 Being from an area in Canada that does not have magpies (which is that part of the country where easily 2/3 of the populace live, if not more), I was not only surprised to see them in Edmonton, but equally surprised to see them when we visited Glasgow. Edmonton is about as far north as Glasgow, though, so I shouldn't have been quite so surprised.
@@markhammer643 Glasgow, Scotland?
@@Kayenne54 Yes.
They are beautiful creatures and love to sing,it binds them together and I have see them sing over a smeal and the singingstoped them from fighting which I what they do mostly when you feel them
I have two wild magpies that i feed peanut butter sandwich's in my garden everyday...... today was the first time they bought their babies to visit! It was awesome!!!!! Im so happy and blessed. Its why im watching magpie vids. They seem so smart. They make different noises for what they want.
"Swoopy boi" is my new favourite phrase for any bird RELENTLESSLY using an aerial attack! Love it!
Love Magpies. Highly intelligent & a sweet singing voice. We’re lucky to have them.
I have a magpie story, one day kids were throwing rocks at one of the magpies in my town breaking his wing. As he couldn't fly I thought it would be killed by stray cats but I put out a dog food and water for it on my balcony each day. The bird did survive and he can now fly again, but the wing didn't set in the right place, one wing is always lifted a little when not flying. One day I was sitting in my living room with just the screen door closed and when I looked up there he was with another adult and some younger birds standing at my screen door looking directly at me. When I am out the front of my house washing the car or whatever he sometimes comes down from the trees and hangs around but he doesn't come too close. I nicknamed him WIngy.
I love the Australasian magpie it's magical and when it warbles it fills me with a sense of pride that I can't really explain.
Thanks for this post you.❤
Since I started befriending magpies in my backyard, I can't remember the last time I was swooped by any magpie anywhere.
I wonder sometimes how far my good name has travelled
I’ve lived in a suburb of Melbourne which was developed for for housing about 37 years ago. In that time we have had magpies from the original family coming to our back yard and then our back porch to be fed. The current juvenile has been so adventurous, coming into the house and going to the fridge, then accompanying me to the back door, where she will stop on the doorstep and wait for “her” food. The parents wait at the door. The original magpie family had a particular call, different from other magpie families, and we hear snatches of that song woven into the current family’s song.
Our yard also hosts little ravens, currawongs, sometimes butcher birds, Indian mynahs, 2-3 types of honeyeater, fairy wrens, as well as the usual sparrows, blackbirds, starlings and pigeons.
I have 2 magpies that come and eat here at my house, i try not to feed them too often so they dont rely on constant food source here and dont forage for themselves, maggy
Mags seems to be the male, and one i named lady i think is a girl. Maggy mags has always been super comfortable with me and lady was very shy and never wanted to eat unless i threw some out to her, now she will come and eat after maggy mags is done. They are such awesome birds
They are magnificent birds and if they love you, they really love you. I had a magpie visit me in the carpark of a local shopping centre. She became a minor celebrity and would do a number of tricks for me for a little food. People would take photos and videos of her singing to me about 20 cms from my face as I whistled, too. She’d jump onto the rim of my open car boot on command. She’d walk next to me through the carpark and I had a bit of a comedy routine with her as in: “Met any good worms lately?” etc. We would come to an internal road and she’d stop when I stopped, and I would tell her to look left and right for cars. She’d look left and right. It would impress the shoppers but what they didn’t know is she was looking for predators, not cars. But it did look like I’d trained her in road safety.
Sadly she broke a wing and before I could rescue her she was got by a predator. I loved that little magpie and miss her.
I had a magpie I raised from a young bird. The bird used to sing with me when i played the guitar. I named him,her, charlie bird. like the jazz guitar player.
This is fantastic, sorry I hadn't seen this sooner, I would have hoped to ask what he was feeding the maggies with a chance of an answer. As it is, I sought out info from a pet supply as it's all that's handy, and feed them worm sized beef strips coated in a wild bird supplement which they love, but I don't wish to do any damage.
I've been living in this house for just over a year and shared two winters with the magpies starting from the week after we moved in. Last year I would just throw the meat in their general direction noting that they didn't trust me throwing stuff 'at them' even though it was always meant to be just short of their spot. This year I believe there are at least two youngsters that come around, both of which come directly up to me and will take food from my hand. The older ones are not so game; They come pretty close, but back away if I hold the treat out to them and have to toss it in their general direction.
One of the youngsters with an elder in tow will wander into the garage if the door is open, stop at the mesh fly curtain at the adjoining door to the house, and if no notices it, will warble a short song to ask if anyone's home. The older one will politely wait at the garage door keeping an eye on junior and will still take any goodies I put in his direction. They don't come everyday which I feel is good as I think they still need to fend for themselves, even if that fending is from other household, and I don't see them much over summer at all.
I Love them.a very cool bird 🙏🇦🇺
I love Magpies, I have spent a lot of time observing them and they are pretty clever birds. Love watching them.
I've been interacting with one group for 20 odd years ,Feed them bits of good magpie foods and I'm the first port of call when babies fledge And love it every year when they bring the kids and introduce them to me , 50 babies over those years from just one of the mothers and dads only got one leg ,
Magpies - to me, a reincarnated fighter pilot, brilliance in look, fearsome, welcomes the dawn with their beautiful communiques, protective of their boundaries and chicks, once established they are beautiful to get along, one of them Jacko (fathered 8 chicks the first year), mimicked “hello” and tapped our window for attention, was wounded in boundary battle and disappeared or chased away by the victor, their calling “splat” cards if not feed, but respect you - even introduces their chicks and certainly keep away garden pests.
I see the New Zealand Tui as little fighter pilots . Large examples are the size of a young magpie.
As a bird of the New Zealand bush , they have supreme manoeuvrability to dodge tree limbs at high speed. They don't seem to do slow flight. Unlike other birds they prefer to fly in tight surroundings more than in open air.
I often see the one I feed flying 1 metre above the ground around the side of the house and up into it's favourite perching tree.
I once saw it chasing a swallow , staying 50 mm off the swallow's tail as it dodged left and right and skimmed the roof of the house. It was like watching a 747 chasing an aerobatic aircraft and gaining on it.
I had a leak in my sunroom roof.
When the guy got up to fix it he said all the mortar is missing from your roof ridge. He repointed and cemented.
Spring came I heard a commotion and looked out my window to see four Maggie pies remove the motor.
I shooed them away.
It turns out they eat this at a certain time of the year.
Bought an owl scare but cant bring myself to use it.
But I dont want to keep having my roof repaired.
Any thoughts.
All birds ignore owl scarers. I took a photo of a pigeon asleep on a tv antenna, that had a owl scarer fitted.
I’m a landscape gardener, so often have magpies sifting through what I’ve dug or raked over.
I don’t understand how they can hear a grub underground, and yet casually walk under me when I’m using a demo hammer on concrete without any concern for the noise.
Magpies walk in through my front door, and keep waking and exit through my back door, not caring about me at all.
Video Premise: "Magpies are smarter than you think."
Magpies: *_Dial in to the internet with their calls._*
Me: "...Seems legit."
I do, I've named a mum magpie Frankie, after my staffy and I chased off a heap of minor bird's like a whole family of them an for the last 2 an a half year's my mum an I have gotten to know them well, mostly Frankie comes to say hi an get some nesting material's an a feed an she always talks at night time before they go to their nests, never ever underestimate a magpie but if you do develop a relationship they are very social 😊
An invisible fence salesman somewhere scratches his head 🤔
I lived for 25 years on a 20 acre property. We had about 30 magpies that would come and be hand fed on our back verandah. One called Speklies was special. One side of her was normal magpie colours. Her other side however was white with little black speckles. Right down the middle. None of the family was ever swooped by our magpies. 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Thanks for this video! I just adore magpies. We have black-billed magpies in Colorado USA. They are amazing! Thanks so much for sharing!
Sometimes they dive on top of my head, as you’re entering their territory so I got a jacket to drive them away
I have two that are very choosy, noisy, playful, cheaky and brave.
good vid love our native animals.
Exact opposite of rats. They will try eating anything, but are absolutely terrified of new things. Put a bait in a hallway and they'll just refuse to pass through for weeks and weeks until they know it's a static object.
Magpies used to play my dog so badly...
One would fly in and land on the end of the porch and he would charge at it in rage. Meanwhile 4 or 5 of them would fly in and steal a piece of dog food from his bowl while he was on the other end of the porch.
It went on for years. He never figured it out, and I didn't mind buying a little extra food just to watch the show.
Smart little guys, for sure.
We all know how bloody smart they are.
I love our maggies, we have 4 families that visit us and every year they bring there babies to show us and then there babies bring there babies to show us, we have one that comes to our front door to talk to us, very cute❤
Great show people 💯💯💯 Les from Perth 👍👍👍👀👀👀
I was told decades ago by an old country bloke , that magpies make great pets and Talkers . But to get them to talk they had split the tongue ??? Never seen it done and don’t want to.
I once witnessed a battle between a flock of magpies and two ravens in my backyard. The ravens nested in a tree behind my house and I guess the magpies didn't like that and started to harass the ravens.
They also have good memories of humans so if your kind to them and feed them, they will remember you
I was away from home for four months last year and when I got home the local magpies rushed straight up to me
I thought they might have forgotten me but they hadn't
@@hodaka1000 that's sooo sweet
The crow family (Corvids) are a family of birds that include crows, rooks, ravens, jackdaws, jays, magpies.
But not these Australian "magpies". They're not corvids.
Magpies in Ireland 🇮🇪 when seeing them used to go as.
1 is for sorry
2 is for joy
3 for marriage
4 to die
5 is for sliver
6 is for gold
7 is for a story that has not yet been told. ☘️💚🇮🇪
The Magpies at my place are so spoilt.
Eat almost anything and everything.
They dont swoop us in our back yard in the breeding season
our kids can play out there happy.
We have 1 Magpie with 1 leg, yep 1 leg and it comes up to the back door
and says "where's the bloody food"?
They are spoilt.
What is worth mentioning is the nerve conduction velocity and neural density of passerines and psittacines. Any creature known for high intelligence, such as primates, magpies, vampire bats and dolphins possesses high neural conduction velocities. By contrast, elephants and whales have greater brain masses than humans, but lower cortical density and conduction velocity.
I have a video I shot of a magpie expertly mimicking the calls of other birds including Butcher Birds and Kookaburras. I also have several of Butcher Birds perfectly mimicking other birds.
The thing I hate worst with animal videos is this modern trend to show the narrator, I honestly find it very distracting. I care less about the person's individual association and just want to hear the facts and see the animals, not two people sitting on the grass, glassy eyed and pointing the birds
Same
Magpies are cool for 9 months of the year and those 3 months when they’re breeding, they turn into absolute MONSTERS
Such beautiful animals
Where inlived for a while in a rural area, the local magpie family would actively interact and play games and " talk" to my dingo x, and he would reciprocate with his play and behaviours. After moving out, I went back to the same house after a couple of months with in minutes, the same behaviours occurred. The Maggie's and my dog remembered.
The Maggie's either didn't interact with or would actively chase my old house mates dog away, very different to my dog.
Unfortunately I lost the video in the floods, but when I visit next will try and recapture.
Love my Magpie masters. They have me well trained since I moved house into their territory 😁
We have around 30 magpies that live with 100 metres of where i live in dandenong. I always say "hello maggie' when i go past them.
Had a pair of maggies (& their various offspring over the years) who used to fly from their gumtree across a busy road the minute my car pulled up. Once Mr M brushed my cheek with his wing as he swooped in to land, but that's the closest I've been to a swooping incident. They'd get a few mealworm treats & fresh bathwater in return for the awesome privilege of their company & watching them interact with each other & other birds. Though I saw Mr M tirelessly help care for his young, he didn't mess around if a juvie kept begging after it was old enough to forage for insects ... 'thwack' with his beak 🤣
Great mimics of other bird song and noises.
I miss the magpies, when I lived out west we had them. The way I looked at them was, they are like “the blue jays” of the woods here. Very noisy and territorial…🇨🇦
I've noticed magpies don't like other birds in their territory as we all know. The only bird I've seen they have no problem with they even seem to get along with in another native bird the noisy miners. Both very territorial species. Maybe that has something to do with it.
Interesting. I have Magpies and minors ‘living’ in my yard. When they are out for the day a couple of parrots swing by
@@swagmanexplores7472 We're so lucky living here in Australia. There's no way I'd ever leave to live in an country.
The noisy miners are the "warning birds", if you get time to listen. If you hear a noisy miner going off, it's because there's some predator nearby - a cat, dog, nasty human, hawk. Every bird in my yard will go on alert if a noisy miner sounds off. They don't eat a lot at a time, and they earn their keep.
@@Kayenne54 They were also known as soldier bird's. Warning Bush's rangers enemies are approaching.
@@neilhamill318 If one is going off in my yard, I'm looking around carefully, particularly in spring. Snakes...Seems as though the bushrangers were particularly observant. Heard some going off one day and eventually figured out that a bearded dragon was in the yard. Brisbane River was just about to burst its banks, one block away, so thanks to both the dragon and the birds for a heads up 🙂
2 Months after my cat died, a magpie sat on his favorite spot and deep stare me for 2 minutes nothing but tears came out, from that moment i knew this buddies were spiritual and special to me, ever since i fall in love with them anytime i see a magpie i remember my cat and say hi to them and feed them God i love them so much 😢