Exempel på magpie

• They will then have an idea of the preponderance of these horrible magpies which live all over the land.

• Experts have a strong resemblance to magpies.

• Present evidence, pending the outcome of further studies, is that predation by magpies is only one of a number of complex factors affecting the population of small birds.

• Would it not be a good thing, in order to encourage the preservation of valuable bird life, to take active steps to destroy jays and magpies?

• I believe the squirrels eat the magpies.

• Although not closely related to the true magpies, they have therefore been referred to as magpies in the past.

• Often resembling those of currawongs and magpies (but not ravens), the eggs vary in colour and pattern, measuring 48 x 32 mm.

• They fly 34 weeks after hatching, feed with adults for about two months, and then fly off to join other juvenile magpies.

• Today black-billed magpies remain relatively tame in areas where they are not persecuted.

• However, in 2008 a study of self-recognition in corvids reported significant results for magpies.

• The behaviors of the magpies clearly contrasted with no mirror present.

• They were later noted to hybridise readily where their territories crossed, with hybrid grey or striped-backed magpies being quite common.

• In some cases, magpies may become extremely aggressive and attack people's faces; it may become very difficult to deter these birds from swooping.

• He wrote for me the parable of the magpies, and many thousands of them sold.

• Time on time she was disrupted in her worshipping by magpies, and she fled from the birds.