look at it look at that weird birb it doesn’t know how to raven
Well that would be because here you have your Eurasian or Common Magpie:
and then you have your black-billed or American Magpie (photo via onthewingphotography.com and damn isn’t that pretty):
You’ve got your Korean Magpie (image via kurtzesinkorea.wordpress.com)… you should be seeing a theme here by now:
Then you have the various oriental (blue or green) magpies, and there’s a couple of azure-winged magpies as well. Smallish, pretty birds; all corvids, which means they’re probably fairly intelligent and like shiny things.
And then there’s the Australian magpie, which is a violent red-eyed insane butcherbird, which means it’s extremely intelligent and likes murder.
WE HAVE DERPY CROWS BECAUSE THE MAGPIES ALREADY TOOK THE ‘OMINOUS BIRD OF DOOM’ SLOT, OKAY?!
Aw Yiss 