Magpie (disambiguation)

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)

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).