Male Black-billed magpie bringing a hawthorn branch to a new nest near the Spokane River
A season in the lives of Black-billed magpies
English fails sometimes. The language assigns words to living things that seem to have originated in a drinking game. “Magpie” is one of those words, as it is also unflattering slang to describe an overly-talkative woman. …
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