When a magpie is suffering from a broken beak, it is often the result of metabolic bone disease (MBD) from a lack of nutrition. Source: Keith Porteous/The Wildlife Rescuer ...

The lone magpie was spotted walking along a road with its legs covered in scaly leg mite, a condition caused by the burrowing mite Knemidocoptes mutans. It leaves the bird with hardened, crusted ...