A somewhat large magpie sitting in the rain on a brown wood fence. Dark leaves from a tree sit behind the wet & shaggy bird.
Depending on where you are in the world, that’s likelier to be a raven with a form of albinism (vitiligo?) than a magpie, IMHO.
It’s missing the band on its beak, for instance, and the main part of the feathers (“rachi”) is white, too.
I’m curious, that’s for sure!
Hadn’t considered that! That’s as cool as the raven with Leucism I saw!
Aw, they’re so regal in that mad dash to collect all the things! Like going thrifting right after a funeral, but just needing to get out of all that hot goth black first. 🤪
What country? It’s not like any magpie I’ve seen, they have white across the back.
North American /black billed magpie. Alaska /Canada native. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-billed_magpie
Aaaah very cool!
These are all Australian magpies, which, apparently, aren’t “real” magpies.
I dunno then
Perhaps a currowong and a magpie both got into the wrong bin food and banged out that monstrosity.
Get this boy a sack of garbage, stat!
It appears to be a crow or raven.
It’s def a magpie, but It DOES seem to have raven like features.
Still very nice looking, all the same.
I can’t shake the feeling that it looks a little raven like. The head is big, the body is rounder the beak seems really big for a magpie. It just looks weird to me. Im obsessed.
Cousins, I think. Thank you for sharing this lovely one.
They are both Corvids!
TIL! I saw the photo and immediately went to wikipedia to confirm that. It looks clearly like a corvid in this photo.
Excellent photo
…MOCK…ING…BIRD…YEAH…YEAH…YEAH!
