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The sedentary adult magpies, both looking quite like each other, live in pairs the year round as the web camera shows too – ever keeping together. Young birds roam around in wintertime.

Magpies are extraordinarily beautiful birds. At first they seem black-and-white, but the black shimmers in blue, violet and green hues. The tail makes up half of an adult bird’s length, the tail of juveniles is shorter. The winter number – somewhere around a hundred thousand individuals - is larger than that of those nesting here in summer, due to the migrants from north.