Magpie (disambiguation)
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Magpie may refer to:
[edit] Birds
- Australian Magpie, Gymnorhina tibicen, crow-sized black and white bird in the family Artamidae
- Azure-winged Magpie, Cyanopica cyana
- Black Magpie, Platysmurus leucopterus, despite its name, is neither a magpie nor, as was long believed, a jay, but a treepie
- Black-billed Magpie, Pica hudsonia (may be conspecific with P. pica)
- European Magpie, Pica pica
- Formosan Blue Magpie Urocissa caerulea
- Gold-billed Magpie, Urocissa flavirostris
- Green Magpie, Cissa chinensis
- Korean Magpie, Pica sericea (may be conspecific with P. pica)
- Red-billed Blue Magpie, Urocissa erythrorhyncha
- Short-tailed Magpie, Cissa thalassina
- Sri Lanka Blue Magpie, Urocissa ornata
- White-winged Magpie, Urocissa whiteheadi
- Yellow-billed Magpie, Pica nuttalli (may be conspecific with P. pica/P. hudsonica)
- Yellow-breasted Magpie, Cissa hypoleuca
- White-throated Magpie-jay, Calocitta formosa
- Magpie-goose, Anseranas semipalmata, aberrant goose in the monotypic family Anseranatidae
- Magpie-lark, Grallina cyanoleuca, an Australian bird, also known as the Murray Magpie and Mudlark
- Madagascar Magpie Robin, Copsychus albospecularis
- Oriental Magpie Robin, Copsychus saularis
- Seychelles Magpie Robin, Copsychus sechellarum
- Magpie (pigeon) a variety of fancy pigeon.
- Magpie Starling, Speculipastor bicolor
- Magpie Tanager, Cissopis leveriana
[edit] Fish
- Magpie perch or Magpie Morwong, Cheilodactylus nigripes, is a morwong of the family Cheilodactylidae
[edit] Moths
- Magpie moth, Nyctemera annulata, a moth in the family Arctiidae
- Magpie moth, Nyctemera amica, a moth in the family Arctiidae
- Magpie moth, Eurrhypara hortulata, a moth in the family Pyralidae
- Magpie moth, Abraxas grossulariata, a moth in the family Geometridae
[edit] Places
- Magpie Lane, Oxford, very narrow historic lane in central Oxford, England
- Magpie River (Ontario) in Ontario, Canada
- Magpie River (Quebec) in northern Quebec, Canada
[edit] Ships
HMS Magpie, one of the eight Royal Navy ships that have been given this name
[edit] 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 Suburbs Magpies AFC, Australian rules football club in Sydney
Britain
- Chorley F.C., English football club
- Newcastle United F.C., English football club
- Notts County F.C., English football club
[edit] Music
- Magpie, a song by the The Mountain Goats on their album "The Sunset Tree"
- Magpie, a song written and sung by Patrick Wolf on the album "The Magic Position"
- Magpie Records, British record label set up in 1976 by Bruce Bastin
- Magpie Lane, English folk group, based in Oxford
- The Thieving Magpie (album), musical album by Marillion
[edit] Other
- Magpie, a person who collects or accumulates things widely and indiscriminately
- Magpie (TV series), British children's television show, broadcast 1968–1980 on ITV
- Magpie (comics), one of the Enemies of Batman, a kleptomaniac supervillain in the Batman series of comics
- Magpie, Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway steam locomotive built in 1861
- Magpie Models, a company producing model horses and accessories
- Magpie Recycling, workers' cooperative based in Brighton, UK
- Magpie RSS, PHP-based parser for RSS feeds
- Montrose Magpies, fictional British quidditch team from the Harry Potter book series
- The Magpies, most famous poem by New Zealand poet Denis Glover (1912-1980)
- 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
- Magpie Systems An inline pipeline inspection company.