yes, Jackdaws are interesting birds! We don't have them in the Western hemisphere. this is what our magpie looked like--he was a special kind only found in calfornia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow-billed_Magpie yes, he was in a cage, because we always had cats! his cage was very large, though. his parents abandoned him before he was weaned, and he was stuck in a tree. he literally fell into a net i was holding underneath him, from exhaustion. he didn't know how to fly. i had to hand-feed him until he got older, but we couldn't release him because he didn't know how to survive in the wild. he was amazing--very smart and sweet.
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Date: 2007-10-03 01:18 pm (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow-billed_Magpie
yes, he was in a cage, because we always had cats! his cage was very large, though. his parents abandoned him before he was weaned, and he was stuck in a tree. he literally fell into a net i was holding underneath him, from exhaustion. he didn't know how to fly. i had to hand-feed him until he got older, but we couldn't release him because he didn't know how to survive in the wild. he was amazing--very smart and sweet.
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Date: 2007-10-03 01:34 pm (UTC)it doesn't look like our magpie at all. also, our magpies, unlike most other crow-like birds here, are very shy