Alice Oswald

Even when writing your own poems, you need to talk to people; you need to magpie around, getting words and things. I'm very against the celebrity culture that wants to say: 'this is a genius, this is one person who has done something brilliant.' There are always a hundred people in the background who have helped to make it.

British Poet

Suranne Jones

I'm a magpie - I collect accessories and trinkets. But I don't have expensive tastes.

English Actress

Andrew Lincoln

I'm like a magpie. I use lots of different things to build a character.

English Actor

Kenneth Branagh

I live in the English countryside, so I'm surrounded by magpies.

Irish Actor

Israel Adesanya

I wear gold all of the time. I collect gold like a magpie.

Nigerian Athlete

Jessica Stockholder

I feel a bit like a magpie attracted to shiny things.

American Artist

Roy Thomson

I have a magpie mind. I like anything that glitters.

Canadian Publisher

Patrick Cox

Canadian Designer

Paloma Faith

Gabriella Wilde

Remember 'magpie' for a bird with distinct black and white feathers, like in old movies.

Color Clues

Magpies are often associated with picking up shiny metal objects, a notable behavior.

Material Collector

The magpie is associated with superstitions and folklore in many cultures.

Bird Mythology

Describing someone as a 'magpie' suggests they are excessively drawn to shiny things.

Negative Connotation

'Magpie' can imply hoarding behavior, collecting items without practical use.

Obsessive Collecting

Using 'magpie' can be humorous, exaggerating someone's attraction to shiny objects.

Amusing Hyperbole

'Magpie' in sports, references loyalty to a particular football club, not just a bird.

Team Affiliation

In Australia, being called a 'Magpie' can be a term of endearment for fans.

Cultural Pride

Remember 'Magpie' as a nickname is specific to Australian football culture.

Local Slang

 blue toxic system if you do it with air bubbles that's much better isn't it but have a look at this there's a little clip to show you in detail here but if i move it around the way that it reflects reflects the light here so there's something see this is a magpie feather exactly and often when you see magpies and similar birds you can really see the

This Platypus Can Glow...

 but, in fact, it's probably your hearing. Really? Yeah, because you can hear things that you can't see, obviously, if they're skulking around down in the foliage. And you pick it up quite quickly. Some birds produce a very characteristic call, some are a little bit more tricky. Magpie. The one that's just

Nature Dates: Jack...

 We used to think this was a uniquely human ability, but we learned that the great apes, our closest relatives, also show this ability. Then we showed it in dolphins, and then later in elephants. We did this work in my lab with the dolphins and elephants, and it's been recently shown in the magpie.

The interspecies...

 But the leopard has to continually protect its prey during the daytime or else it will be destroyed. Once the vultures come down, they they just demolish a huge carcass in a very short space of time. The leopard was being persecuted by these magpies that would, that would sort of hop around it,

Chasing the Rare Snow...

 and they rehearse and they do some other things that help memory and that are a very important part of sleep and dreams. The next step of evolution in mammals and creatures with divinely superfluous neurons will be to play. And the fact that the polar bear and husky or magpie and a bear

Stuart Brown: Play is...

 But no matter how hard they struggled, the gulf between them only grew wider. Day after day, the Queen Mother watched without pity. Years passed, and the weaver and the cowherd had no one, except the passing magpies to cheer them on.

The myth of the original...

 victorious a name for the bird well done Ally well if those of you have correctly identified it as the magpie Shrike hundred percent to you and it is also cooperative breeder as we said and for some reason the cooperative breathers

Safari Live - Day 150 PIPE...

 but one thing we do know is that humans are far from alone in our attention towards the dead. Like people, some animals, including the corvids, the family of birds that houses the crows, ravens, magpies and jays,

What crows teach us...

 count them we've got the lesser grace rank and the red-backed Shrike and the white crown Shrike and the gray head Bush right the orange blistered Bush Shrike the magpie Shrike the red seas

Safari Live - Day 146 PIPE...

 And as people moved out, other things moved in. That bird on top of there, Is that a magpie? It's a piece of metal. Well, that's embarrassing for both of us.