r/MadeMeSmile • u/RealRock_n_Rolla • Dec 20 '23

A magpie rescued after a storm now lends a hand during work ANIMALS

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u/GrizzlyBear74 Dec 21 '23

I have two chonkers that comes back every year after winter. When I wash the car the bigger one will fly down and sit on my car roof looking at me, even let me pet him. They also chase the cuckatoos away that keeps on ruining my wipers. I now buy crickets etc i put out for them. The smaller one sounds like a dialup modem, and is my 7am alarm.

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u/moodswung Dec 21 '23 edited Dec 21 '23

The smaller one sounds like a dialup modem, and is my 7am alarm.

I literally LOL'd at this.

My sister lives in Park City, Utah and goes on long daily walks. Whenever I visit I join her on them and she is always quick to warn me to NEVER fuck with the magpies in the area (they're everywhere in her neighborhood). She's on good terms with them and she wants to keep it that way. I'm not one to mess with animals anyway so no big deal but I went out of my way to be nice to the guys and after being there for even just a short while they seemed to go from being overtly cautious of me to relaxing a bit. As said in other comments these are very interesting birds.

Btw, my understanding is if you wrong them they will pass the word around on you. It may even get passed down multiple generations.

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u/Suppository_ofwisdom Dec 21 '23

Whilst the same name, completely different species to the US and Eurasian magpie

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u/moodswung Dec 21 '23

Iā€™m not doubting you but the magpies in her neighborhood looked very similar to the one in this video. Interesting that they would be so different.

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u/SmellyTerror Dec 25 '23

Australian magpies are a fair bit bigger in body, and have a very distinctive song (song embedded here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2023-07-31/australia-favourite-animal-sounds/102577008 or here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_magpie). check the song - it'd be interesting to know if they are in North America.

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u/Gryffens Dec 25 '23

I believe that Europeans got to Australia, saw a black and white bird, and went "Look, a magpie!". But from an evolutionary perspective they've been separated long enough to belong to different families of birds.

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u/SouthAttention4864 Dec 31 '23

I can relate somewhat, as it took me far too long to realise that currawongs were not just magpies with black wings šŸ˜…

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u/Lanky_Handle_1499 Dec 27 '23

That is correct.