Magpie (disambiguation)

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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

• 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 town in Australia

Ships

• HMS Magpie, one of eight Royal Navy ships that have been given this name

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

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

Other

• MAGPIE, a pulsed-power generator based at Imperial College London.
• Magpie (TV series), British children's television show, broadcast 1968–1980 on ITV
• Magpie (comics), 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.

See also

• "The Magpies", most famous poem by New Zealand poet Denis Glover (1912–1980)
• Magpie Recycling, workers' cooperative based in Brighton, UK
• 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