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Welcome to For the Love of Wildlife!

This channel is dedicated to all of our amazing Wildlife.

Today's blog post is about the magnificent Magpie!

Magpie: A native bird and one of the foremost songbirds in the world.

Scientific name: Gymnorhina tibicen

Magpies have a lifespan of 25-30 years and are very social and territorial birds. They can form long-lasting friendships and connections with people that are enriching and harmonious for birds and humans. Friendships often form between magpies and humans when a magpie is injured or sick and is being cared for. According to Gisela Kaplan (author of Australian Magpie Biology and Behaviour of an Unusual Songbird), such encounters show that magpies can be gentle and tender birds. They are playful, adaptable, inquisitive, and have minds of their own.

😮Surprising fact: Research has shown that magpies can recognise up to at least 100 individual people! They have excellent recall for human faces.😮

I have an affinity with all birds, but particularly magpies because of their warbling. 

It's like they are actually talking to you.

Below are some piccys of a few of my encounters

with this beautiful songbird! And a video here that I took of one very happy maggie!  

Check out the links below for more facts about magpies and how connecting with them may improve your mental health and wellbeing! 

*Operation Magpie - Fact Sheet 1 *Operation Magpie - Fact Sheet 2

*The Magpie Whisperer - Magpie Therapy

#Warbling #MagpieConnections #Songbird #BirdTherapy

❤️ Enjoy!! ❤️

 

  

 

      

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

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