Crows

[amazondoc]

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Right on both counts. Both magpies and crows are corvids (the name for the crow family).

Edited to add -- woops! I looked up a few sites, and some folks are saying that the birds are NOT actually magpies, but rather a similar bird called African pied crows. I dunno which is correct!

 

[wyndski]

I have crows around here and they are very smart. I haven't had them bother the chickens, but I have had them steal eggs before.