Re: Foxes, ladies and weapons

["Mary Fisher"]

"Ginny" <glvl88REMOVETHIS@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> Peggy wrote:
>> Some types are  I have them here . Some people call them magpie larks. I
>> think they are the same thing.
>> Peggy
>
> Not really although they do all look similar.
>
> These descriptions are for Australian birds. Magpies are large, a little 
> smaller than the crow, 36-44cm and adults have no white on the face but 
> some on the back and/or neck and a large beak. Magpie-larks are smaller 
> 27cm and always have some white on the throat or near the eye and a small 
> beak. Then the Butcherbird which sings so lovely (as do our Magpies) is in 
> between in size, still black and white but there are at least four 
> different types of them, the Pied and the Grey being the two most common; 
> all have a large beak and their black and white markings vary from race to 
> race.

British magpies don't sing. they shout.

Mary