What is the technical (binomial) name of the common magpie?
and for extra points, describe the disease that shares the name.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 20 Jun 2011, 15:32, 6 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Michael Jackson disease
doesn't matter if you're black and/or white.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Mon 20 Jun 2011, 15:33, Reply)

Is it Corvus?

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 20 Jun 2011, 15:34, Reply)

I believe this is a family of birds that includes, rooks and ravens

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 20 Jun 2011, 15:34, Reply)

Ahh, was a complete guess anyway

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 20 Jun 2011, 15:37, Reply)

Avian Minstralius pikeyium

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 20 Jun 2011, 15:34, Reply)

Toon Army.
Extra: A love of brown ale.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 20 Jun 2011, 15:34, Reply)

Kleptos
Stealing shiny things.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Mon 20 Jun 2011, 15:35, Reply)

I had to google the name
but the disease is the craving to eat non foodstuffs during pregnancy, eg coal or chalk.
(berk, Mon 20 Jun 2011, 15:36, Reply)

Magpies are my favourite birds
and the name is hilarious.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 20 Jun 2011, 15:38, Reply)

Hah
magpies shoot lightning from their cheeks.
( Kroney, Mon 20 Jun 2011, 15:39, Reply)

I did not know that was their latin name
it makes them sound like a type of pokemon.
(berk, Mon 20 Jun 2011, 15:44, Reply)

Ooh, and it also happens in some cases of anaemia.
I found it when I was convinced I had anaemia. I used to love convincing myself I was ill.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 20 Jun 2011, 15:44, Reply)

That's one of the great pitfalls of studying the biological sciences
you're permanently convinced you have this, that or the other weird symptom which means you have this, that or the other weird disease. I convinced myself I had a myelodysplastic syndrome once.
(berk, Mon 20 Jun 2011, 15:46, Reply)