Magpie (disambiguation)

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Magpie is a common name describing several genera of the bird family Corvidae.

Magpie or magpies may also refer to:

Animals

Other Birds

  • Australian magpie, a medium-sized black and white passerine bird native to Australia and southern New Guinea

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 animals

  • Magpie cat, a bicolor cat with irregular black-and-white spotting
  • Magpie perch or magpie morwong (Cheilodactylus nigripes, a fish of family Cheilodactylidae)

Places

Sports clubs

Australia

  • Collingwood Magpies, an Australian Football League club
  • Hay Magpies, a rugby league club based in the New South Wales town of Hay
  • Port Adelaide Magpies
    , a South Australian National Football League club
  • Souths Logan Magpies, a Queensland Cup club
  • Western Suburbs Magpies, a NSWRL Premier League club
  • Western Magpies Australian Football Club
    , an AFL Queensland State League club
  • Western Suburbs Magpies AFC
    , an Australian rules football club in Sydney

United Kingdom

Elsewhere

Music

Songs

Film and television

  • Magpie (TV series), British children's television show, broadcast 1968–1980 on ITV
  • Magpie (film), a British neo-noir directed by Sam Yates
  • Magpie (character), a kleptomaniac supervillain in the Batman series of comics
  • The Magpie (film)
    , 1958 Soviet drama directed by Naum Trakhtenberg

Other uses

See also

  • "The Magpies", the most famous poem by New Zealand poet Denis Glover (1912–1980)
  • The Other Magpie, a Native American woman who fought in the Black Hills War