magpie
Magpie
September 3rd, 2011
The Australian Magpie (Cracticus tibicen) is a medium-sized black and white bird native to Australia and southern New Guinea. With its long legs, the Australian Magpie walks rather than waddles or hops and spends much time on the ground. Its complex, musical, warbling call is one of the most familiar Australian bird sounds. In Denis Glover’s poem The Magpies, the mature magpie’s call is described as quardle oodle ardle wardle doodle.
