Lioness ([info]elisem) wrote,
@ 2008-05-07 13:32:00
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Inner Magpie pendant progress
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[info]mcpye
2008-05-09 08:41 am UTC (link)
Your maggies look different to ours, just going by the silhouette. Does the North American continent have its own magpies, or are they the same as the European one? I know our Australian Magpie (Gymnorhina tibicen) doesn't have that collecting habit, but it has a glorious song — I believe its Latin name refers to a flute. Here's a bunch of links:
www.austmus.gov.au/factsheets/australian_magpie.htm (official museum facts); australian-animals.net/magpie.htm (many links to photos); National Parks (NSW) (this has the same information as ww.environment.nsw.gov.au/plantsanimals/TheAustralianMagpie.htm), and a book extract [PDF] www.publish.csiro.au/samples/AustMagpiesample.pdf

Nice photos, too. Having seen different dichroic objects, I can imagine that getting a representative colour photo would be tricky indeed &mdash possibly best done by accompanying some stills with a little video, tho' that mayn't be practical here.

Edited at 2008-05-09 08:47 am UTC

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different magpies, yep.
[info]elisem
2008-05-09 12:20 pm UTC (link)
Ours are Corvidae pica pica. the black-billed magpie -- or possibly Corvidae pica hudsonia, the black-billed magpie, if this site is correct. (That site also talks about the distinction between it and your gymnorhina tibicen, which is not a Corvidae.)

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