When Dominique Potvin and her team set out to test a new technology for tracking birds, they didn’t think they were entering into an interspecies game of one-upmanship. Instead, Potvin, an animal ...

A heartbroken woman is pleading for help after more than 30 magpies mysteriously dropped dead in her suburban front yard. The bizarre spate of sudden deaths began earlier this month when Kylie ...

When we attached tiny, backpack-like tracking devices to five Australian magpies for a pilot study, we didn’t expect to discover an entirely new social behaviour rarely seen in birds. Our goal was to ...