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- Magpie Book Club Resumes (Plus, a Place for Our Thoughts on Belle Burden’s Memoir.)
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GARDEN WILDLIFE – THE MAGPIE & FOX
Garden Wildlife – The Magpie & Fox Talk about harassment , the two Magpies who have a nest in one of the garden trees wouldn’t give this Fox a minutes […]
Magpie Book Club Resumes (Plus, a Place for Our Thoughts on Belle Burden’s Memoir.)
Thoughts on Strangers by Belle Burden + and more. The post Magpie Book Club Resumes (Plus, a Place for Our Thoughts on Belle Burden’s Memoir.) appeared first on Magpie by Jen Shoop...
Magpie Ice Breakers: Spring 2026 Edition.
Nosy questions for a Monday morning. The post Magpie Ice Breakers: Spring 2026 Edition. appeared first on Magpie by Jen Shoop.
Cormorant: A Cultural History of Greed and Prejudice (a review)
Close reading is sometimes considered the special province of English professors and other poetry devotees. It is a kind of clever sleuthing that can make sense, for example, of a...
Pigeons' milk and colporteurs
A tiny little bit of working class folklore
Australian Magpies in Victoria
This post is republished in our “From the Archives” series, featuring highlights of our vast back catalogue of more than 10,000 birding-related posts published over the last 15 yea...
The Magpie Diary: May 24, 2026.
Closing out my book tour. The post The Magpie Diary: May 24, 2026. appeared first on Magpie by Jen Shoop.
Books photo: The Book of Birds: A field guide by Robert Macfarlane, illustrated by Jackie Morris
The starling, Sturnus vulgaris, sometimes, en masse, “a sight to drop the jaw and smack the gob, a sight beyond belief; it’s all the fun of the murmuration fair,” Robert Macfarlane...
Who Is Afraid Of The Public Reader?
I have always found it curious that in a culture where nearly every aspect of life is unapologetically performed, monetised, exhibited, and algorithmically amplified, the sight of...
Some Thoughts on Yesteryear.
A snap-and-snarl read. The post Some Thoughts on Yesteryear. appeared first on Magpie by Jen Shoop.
An Ornithological Odyssey: Ten Distinguished Sojourners in the Panoply of Avian Opulence
What is the world coming to? When you ask artificial intelligence to generate a post title, it produces the sort of rubbish title that disfigures the article you are reading now. A...
Gardening Stories – Feathered Foes and Friends
By Elizabeth Waddington Elizabeth is a writer, permaculture designer and green living consultant. She is a practical, hands-on gardener with a background in philosophy As a bird-lo...
Updated Birdsong Mnemonics for Donald Trump’s America
The ovenbird’s two-syllable, passionate cry can sound like “Tea-CHER! Tea-CHER! Tea-CHER!” increasing in volume with each repetition. Or was it “Ep-STEIN! Ep-STEIN! Ep-STEIN!”?
The Puffin at Palazzo Tron
If this post had a subtitle, it would be ‘in which the Royal Mail almost sabotages my debut at the Venice Biennale of Art and I’m made to understand that my artwork is “of no intri...
Demotivational Posters for Birds (XXXIII)
A raven—neither particularly happy nor unhappy, just busy mending its own ways—came across a mixed flock of birds. The raven was a bit confused and tried to understand: “Why do you...
Our greatest songster?
LISTEN to a Nightingale, singing solo at 3am on a May morning, and you can understand why no other bird has inspired more poets, writers and romantics.
Be a cheeky bird thief in Bad Magpie
Untitled Goose Game fans better prepare themselves for more avian shenanigans with the reveal of Bad Magpie, coming to Xbox Series X|S and PC in 2027. Game Pass Ultimate on day one...
From Best Dressed to Class Clown, These 15 Birds Own Their Spring Migrant Superlatives
Depending on your teenage years, the mere mention of superlatives could either bring back fond memories or resurrect deeply buried trauma. Either way, forget about all that—these s...
The Magpie Diary: May 3, 2026.
Reflections on a lost friend. The post The Magpie Diary: May 3, 2026. appeared first on Magpie by Jen Shoop.
Feathered aliens: friends and foes
several of the birds I see almost every day are non-native, but have been here so long I tend to take them for granted
J. Drew Lanham’s Sparrow Envy
It’s National Poetry Month in the U.S., and each year we like to celebrate by sharing our favorite contemporary writers’ work about birds. Ornithologist and poet J. Drew Lanham oft...
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