I have a very, very strange memory
I take in a lot of stuff :) I think you told me they were, as I said I loved them
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Fri 30 Apr 2010, 16:02, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Magpies are awesome
They're family Corvidae, which is sufficient to call them 'crows,' but they're a different genus to crows, jackdaws, ravens and rooks. Still very close relatives and alarmingly intelligent: my mother reported seeing one pick up a piece of hard, stale bread off her lawn the other day and, rather than try and struggle through it, dunked it in the pond to soften it first....because A CROW WOULD KNOW!

(EDIT: sorry, I really can bang on about crows if you set me off...)
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 30 Apr 2010, 16:06, Reply)

Hahahahah
no no problem. Magpies are apparently self-aware.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Fri 30 Apr 2010, 16:13, Reply)

I remember reading that article
It makes you think about how much of our own behaviour we don't normally think about - like recognising our own reflections - when we start seeing crows exhibiting these things that we'd normally take for granted. The corvid revolution is beginning, I tell you!
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 30 Apr 2010, 16:21, Reply)

"Take in a lot of stuff"
Fnarr
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Fri 30 Apr 2010, 16:17, Reply)