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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

• Australian magpie, a medium-sized black and white passerine bird native to Australia and southern New Guinea
• Magpie cat, a bicolor cat with irregular black-and-white spotting
• Magpie perch or magpie morwong (Cheilodactylus nigripes, a fish of family Cheilodactylidae)

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

Places

• Magpie, a settlement in the municipality of Rivière-Saint-Jean, Quebec, Canada
• Magpie Creek, a stream in North Dakota, USA
• Magpie Lane, Oxford, a very narrow historic lane in central Oxford, England
• Magpie River (Ontario), Canada
• Magpie River (Quebec), Canada
• Magpie, Quebec, a community in Canada
• Magpie, Victoria, a suburb of Ballarat in Australia

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

• Chorley F.C., an English football club
• Newcastle United F.C., an English football club
• Notts County F.C., an English football club
• Maidenhead United F.C., an English football club

Elsewhere

• F.C. Bruno's Magpies, a Gibraltar football club
• Rabat Ajax F.C., a Maltese football club
• New York Magpies, United States Australian Football League team
• Hawke's Bay (National Provincial Championship), a New Zealand rugby union team

Music

• Magpie Records, a British record label set up in 1976 by Bruce Bastin
• Magpie (folk duo), an American folk duo formed in the 1970s
• Magpie, an album by Stephen Fretwell

Songs

• "The Magpie", a Russian art song, see List of compositions by Modest Mussorgsky
• "Magpie", B-side of the 1994 single " Girls & Boys" by the English rock band Blur
• "Magpie", on the album The Magic Position by Patrick Wolf
• "Morning Mr. Magpie", on the 2011 album The King of Limbs by the English band Radiohead
• "Magpie", a song by The Mountain Goats on their album The Sunset Tree
• "Magpie to the Morning", from the 2009 album Middle Cyclone by the American folk singer Neko Case
• "Magpie", from the 2015 album Mount the Air by The Unthanks, based on the nursery rhyme "One for Sorrow"

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

• HMS Magpie, eight Royal Navy ships
• MAGPIE, a pulsed-power generator based at Imperial College London
• MAgPIE, a scientific model for land and water use
• The Magpie (Monet) ("La Pie"), an 1869 painting by Monet
• Magpie, Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway steam locomotive built in 1861
• Magpie, a serif typeface designed by Vincent Connare
• Magpie, the magazine of the now defunct Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE)

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
• Thieving Magpie (disambiguation)

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