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unusual facts about magpie


La Pie qui Chante

La Pie qui Chante (English: The Singing Magpie), is a French brand of confectionery, presently owned by Cadbury.


Azure-winged Magpie

Recent genetic analysis has shown that the Azure-winged Magpie and the Iberian Magpie are distinct at species level.

Black-billed Magpie

If this view is correct, the Korean subspecies of the European Magpie, Pica pica sericea, should also be considered a separate species.

Black-throated Magpie-Jay

A Black-throated Magpie-Jay is featured in The Big Bang Theory Season 5 episode 9, The Ornithophobia Diffusion, although incorrectly referred to as a "Blue Jay."

A Black-throated Magpie-Jay is also featured in several slow-motion close-ups in Drake and Rihanna's music video for the single "Take Care".

Caustic Casanova

As of September 2010, the band is currently in the studio recording a follow up record to Imminent Eminence with record producer/indie rock musician J. Robbins at his Magpie Cage Studios in Baltimore, Maryland.

Corvus: A Life With Birds

Corvus: A Life With Birds (ISBN 9781582434773) by Esther Woolfson is a non-fiction book about a family which adopts various corvids; a rook named Chicken, a magpie named Spike, and a crow named Ziki.

Elsternwick, Victoria

In the same way that Ripponlea took its name from the "Rippon Lea Estate" of Sir Frederick Sargood, Elsternwick took its name from the largest property in the district: Charles Ebden's house Elster (Elster is German for "magpie" :de:Elster).

Hammer No More the Fingers

The album was recorded in 2008 at Magpie Cage Studios in Baltimore, Maryland with musician and producer J. Robbins of Jawbox and Burning Airlines.

Leonard Doncaster

Early Mendelian geneticist who discovered sex linkage, while writing up the results of the Reverend G.H. Raynor on the magpie moth Abraxas grossulariata.

Meat pie

Beef, lamb, and duck were employed, but a majority of the time it was the magpie that was the main ingredient.

Mike Holoway

Comprising Mike Holoway, Derek Pascoe, John Summerton, Bill Rice and Jamie Stone, the group made numerous TV appearances on programmes such as Blue Peter, Magpie, You Must Be Joking, Pauline's Quirkes, Fanfare and Top of the Pops.

Susan Stranks

Following Magpie, Stranks devised and presented a programme for pre-school children, named Paperplay, which ran until 1981.

Victory for the Magpie

"Victory for the Magpie" is the debut single by Brighton two-piece Blood Red Shoes.

Weobley

In 2001 the artist Walenty Pytel completed a sculpture of a magpie for the village (a magpie is the village's emblem).

Yellow-billed Blue Magpie

From Simla eastwards, the closely allied Red-billed Blue-Magpie (Urocissa melanocephala) is often found in the same areas as the yellow-billed species; it is particularly common about Mussoorie, Tehri-Garhwal, -Kumaon, and in Nepal, and may be easily distinguished by its red beak and the greater extent of the white nape-patch.


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