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Edmontonians vote to make magpies city’s official bird
Elly Knight, an avian ecologist with the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute, says Edmonton identifies with magpies and ...
A screeching mascot takes wing: Magpie unveiled as Edmonton's official bird
Nita Jalkanen says she checks on the avian neighbours that fly into her Edmonton backyard to drink from her bird bath nearly ...
‘Everyone’s neighbour is a magpie’: Edmonton makes magpies official city bird
EDMONTON - Nita Jalkanen says she checks on the avian neighbours that fly into her Edmonton backyard to drink from her bird ...
‘Everyone’s neighbour is a magpie in Edmonton’: Magpies’ special place in Alberta’s capital
The bird is seen in murals around town and locals sometimes wear magpie costumes for Halloween. Elly Knight, an avian ecologist with the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute, says that’s why it ...