Magpie (disambiguation)
Appearance
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Magpie may refer to:
Animals
Birds
"True" magpies, four genera in the bird family Corvidae:
- Pica, black-and-white magpies, 1–4 species, Northern Hemisphere
- Urocissa, blue magpies, five species, S-SE Asia
- Cissa, green magpies, three species, E-SE Asia
- Cyanopica, azure-winged magpies, two species, Iberia and East Asia
Other Corvidae:
- Black magpie (Platysmurus leucopterus), a jay-like treepie of SE Asia
- Magpie-jays, (Calocitta), two species of American blue jays
Bellmagpies, songbirds related to Corvidae in family Artamidae or Cracticidae, namely:
- Australian magpie (Gymnorhina tibicen), crow-sized, black-and-white, Australia)
- Black magpie (Tasmania) (Strepera versicolor arguta), mainly black with some white, Tasmania
Songbirds unrelated to Corvidae:
- Magpie-lark or Murray magpie (Grallina cyanoleuca), a black-and-white monarch flycatcher from Australia
- Magpie-robins (Copsychus), 8 species of long-tailed turdoids from the Indian Ocean region
- Magpie starling (Speculipastor bicolor), a black-and-white starling from Africa
- Magpie tanager (Cissopis leveriana), a black-and-white tanager from South America
Other birds:
- Magpie goose (Anseranas semipalmata), a peculiar black-and-white goose from the Australian region
- English Magpie pigeon, a black-and-white fancy pigeon originating in Germany
- Old German Magpie Tumbler, breed of fancy pigeon
- Other domestic breeds with piebald plumage
Butterflies and moths
- Magpie (butterfly), the milkweed butterfly Protoploea apatela from the New Guinea region
- Abraxas grossulariata, a moth in the family Geometridae, called the magpie in Great Britain and Ireland
- Eurrhypara hortulata, a moth in the family Pyralidae, called the small magpie in Great Britain and Ireland
- Nyctemera amicus, a moth in the family Arctiidae from south-east Asia and Australasia, sometimes called the magpie moth
- Nyctemera annulata, a moth in the family Arctiidae, called the magpie moth in New Zealand
Other animals
- Magpie cat, a bicolor cat with irregular black-and-white spotting
- Magpie perch or magpie morwong (Cheilodactylus nigripes, a fish of family Cheilodactylidae)
Places
- Magpie, a settlement in the municipality of Rivière-Saint-Jean, Quebec, Canada
- Magpie Creek, a stream in North Dakota, USA
- Magpie Lane, Oxford, very narrow historic lane in central Oxford, England
- Magpie River (Ontario) in Ontario, Canada
- Magpie River (Quebec) in northern Quebec, Canada
- Magpie, Victoria, a suburb of Ballarat in Australia
Sports clubs
Various football clubs may be known, formally or informally, as the Magpies:
Australia
- Collingwood Magpies, Australian Football League club
- Hay Magpies, rugby league club based in the New South Wales town of Hay
- Port Adelaide Magpies, South Australian National Football League club
- Souths Logan Magpies, a Queensland Cup club
- Western Suburbs Magpies, a NSWRL Premier League club
- Western Magpies Australian Football Club, an AFL Queensland State League club
- Western Suburbs Magpies AFC, Australian rules football club in Sydney
Gibraltar
- F.C. Bruno's Magpies, Gibraltar football club
Malta
- Rabat Ajax F.C., Maltese football club
United Kingdom
- Chorley F.C., English football club
- Newcastle United F.C., English football club
- Notts County F.C., English football club
- Maidenhead United F.C., English football club
United States
- New York Magpies, United States Australian Football League team
Music
- "The Magpie", Russian art song List of compositions by Modest Mussorgsky
- La gazza ladra or "The Thieving Magpie," an opera semiseria in two acts by Gioachino Rossini
Popular music
- Magpie Records, British record label set up in 1976 by Bruce Bastin
- Magpie Lane, English folk group, based in Oxford
- Magpie, an American folk duo formed in the 1970s
Albums
- Magpie, an album by Stephen Fretwell
- Good Morning, Magpie, an album by American band Murder By Death
- The Thieving Magpie (album), musical album by Marillion
Songs
- "Magpie", a song by The Mountain Goats on their album The Sunset Tree
- "Magpie", a B-side song by the English rock band Blur on their 1994 single "Girls & Boys"
- "Magpie", a song by Patrick Wolf on the album The Magic Position
- "Morning Mr. Magpie", a song by the English band Radiohead on their 2011 album The King of Limbs
- "Magpie to the Morning". a song by the American folk singer Neko Case from her 2009 album Middle Cyclone
- "Magpie", a song based on the nursery-rhyme "One for Sorrow", from the 2015 album Mount the Air by The Unthanks
- "Magpie", a song based on the nursery-rhyme "One for Sorrow", from the 2001 Album Death by Chocolate by Death by Chocolate (band)
Companies
- musicMagpie, a British online shopping retailer
Other uses
- HMS Magpie, one of eight Royal Navy ships that have been given this name
- MAGPIE, a pulsed-power generator based at Imperial College London
- MAgPIE, a scientific model for land and water use
- Magpie (TV series), British children's television show, broadcast 1968–1980 on ITV
- Magpie (character), a kleptomaniac supervillain in the Batman series of comics
- The Magpie (Monet) ("La Pie"), an 1869 painting by Monet
- Magpie, Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway steam locomotive built in 1861
- Magpie, a serif typeface designed by Vincent Connare
- Magpie, the magazine of the now defunct Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE)
See also
- "The Magpies", most famous poem by New Zealand poet Denis Glover (1912–1980)
- Montrose Magpies, fictional British quidditch team from the Harry Potter book series
- The Magpie's Nest, English fairy tale collected by Joseph Jacobs
- The Other Magpie, a woman of the Crow Nation of Native Americans who fought in the Black Hills War