They think like humans, they get it in their head they don't like you and they remember your face
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Fifty pound grudge in ten ounces of feathers.
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The Australian ones are passerines, but with the corvids’ cruel doggedness
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There was one on my route home as a kid that I had an intense kind of rivalry with I worked out that its nest was on the other side of the paddock on one side of the road, so I started staring down that specific tree every time I passed It worked maybe three times
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For a time I there was a route to school I called “the magpie route” that you’d always have to run.
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(Psst, it's not a corvid, it's a butcherbird -- descended from an ancient ancestor of the passerines, vaguely related to shrikes)
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Ha, sorry, I was misled by the term "magpie" -- I should know better than to trust the names of Australian animals
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