Often when I meet people who are visiting Colorado or relocating from the eastern U.S., they ask “What is that beautiful black and white bird with the long tail?” My typical shrugging reply is ...

An unusually long-tailed ... more cream-­colored. Immatures have narrower and more pointed outer tail feathers. Flight: relatively slow, with steady, rowing wingbeats, but the birds are easily ...

Adult magpies have glossy black-and-white bodies and wings with a long wedge-shaped tail. They have a blue-green ... when alarmed — such when a cat or bird of prey is nearby.

While, on the face of it, the Magpie is a striking bird with its plump body, upright stance, long tail, confidently alert demeanour, bold black and white pattern and plumage with a metallic ...

and long tail, there is nothing else quite like the magpie in the UK.” Well, that’s a good start in terms of my vague and unformed attraction to them – it is a unique bird. “When seen ...

With jade-coloured plumage contrasting beautifully with its red beak and limbs, and a striking black band running along its eye like a bandit, this bird is brimming ... The Taiwan blue magpie ...

The Magpie Robin is one of the best songsters in the city, where singing birds are scarce ... the shoulder to the tip of the wing, and a long tail with white outer-tail feathers.

While, on the face of it, the Magpie is a striking bird with its plump body, upright stance, long tail, confidently alert demeanour, bold black and white pattern and plumage with a metallic ...

With jade-coloured plumage contrasting beautifully with its red beak and limbs, and a striking black band running along its eye like a bandit, this bird is brimming ... The Taiwan blue magpie ...