Looked out the kitchen window this morning and there's 4 customers in the trap.

I had one we found and bottle feed it . It could say a lot of words had it for a pet for 7 years.

Magpies are scavengers are they not? They are a beneficial species of bird, right?

Federal protection in usa

We have a small flock that hangs and nests around our place, they do a good job keeping the hawks and such away, when a hawk stops by they get mobbed and move on.

Corvids-Same as a crow or a raven.

They are not protected here. They fly through the yard in flocks of 12 to 15. They chase all the other birds away from the feeder and help themselves. Nothing but bullies. But VERY clever birds, no doubt.

Nice!

The Amish here set similar traps for tweety birds. What do ya catch them for?

Ok, I see why. We were posting at the same time.

When I hunted elk in Colorado magpies would be on the gut piles within minutes. Pretty cool looking birds!

Protected in the USA

Magpies are considered one of the three smartest animals in the word.

Nasty -, peck the eyes out of new born calves. Haven't seen one here in quite a few years, and that is fine by me.




Charlie

As the saying goes, not every coyote has a magpie but every magpie has a coyote.

I am glad to see I am not the only one that has no love for them.

We trap them here and kill every one. Big time nest raiders.

Smart birds like their crow and Jay cousins.

Pete

I'm guessing ravens are one of the other (probably smartest), and crows?

I had a couple beaver carcasses covered with a pallet, and then four more pallets (one upright on each side of the pallet that was covering the carcasses). A group of about 20 ravens figured out twice how to get the pallets off of those beaver carcasses. I never saw them do it; wish I had. Ravens are like magicians.

There a popular bird in north western China, they catch and eat them

Not protected here, also have a tendency to eat baby chickens and their eggs, if they can get them.

Doesn't sound like Magpies are beneficial bird the Audubon Society makes them out to be. But then, neither are starlings and they seem to give them a pass too.
They eat everything in China that moves.

How is that trap made ? I am only curious ?