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I've seen the occasional tame crow, but a magpie would be loads cooler.. They're the same family but are magpies just a bit too delinquent to keep as pets?
You'd be better off trying to tame 2.
one for sorrow, two for joy etc....
don't try it with an Australian one; they like the difference between Cringer and Battle Cat.
No idea about the pet side of things,but here's a little story that will make you smile.
A few weeks ago,nice sunny day,we were sat in the garden with our 17yr old granddaughter, who's a lovely kid but not the sharpest tool in the box.
All of a sudden she exclaims,"oh my god,look at the size of that sparrow,I've never seen a sparrow that big before".
We all look around and say,where, we can't see it.
Over there on the fence,she said,the big black and white one 😆
Meanwhile on one of Yunki's other bookmarks 🙂
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We've got a pair of crows at work... they eat everything from apple cores to chocolate to Chips.
This last few weeks they've started getting really close to us for food, less than a meter and will jump on top of each other to get to the food.
Their behavior is great to watch. There seems to be no limit to the amount of chip they can eat and still fly.
Yes, I consider myself to be sad!!!
That video is ace.. We had a Magpie tapping at our bedroom window once, but it was the crack of dawn and he'd woken me up so I sent him packing..
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We sort of had one and I mentioned it on a thread here before.It would tap on the window regularly so one day we opened it and he flew in.Very entertaining and not at all scared of humans.It was a regular visitor until one summer's day when it flew in through the back door uninvited and my mum found it tucking in to our Sunday roast chicken.That got it barred.
ernielynch is pretty knowledgable IIRC.
I've recently re-read Corvus by Esther Woolfson. In it she recounts the time her family had a pet magpie, Spike. They also had (still have?) a pet rook called Chicken but Spike was definitely a real character. Worth seeking out.
Magpies are arseholes. Invasive bastiches.
This guy seems to have an unwanted (almost) pet Sparrowhawk!
You never know with magpies. You might say it's not a black and white issue.
Mate had one would fly behind the school bus to a certain point then go home then similarly it would be waiting at said point for the return journey. When it wasn't doing that it was pinching keys or anything shiny and dropping it down the sodding drain pipe.
A magpie baby fell out of a nest by a mates house once, and he brought it around to me. My parents said that I could look after it (assuming that it'd be dead by the morning....). He lived to be 19 years old 😆
That video brought back memories, although I swear mine spoke a slightly different language. He was pretty bright though. He'd ignore all the cars that drove by, but would get excited by the engine sound of my parents car before it even came into view.
My friend's dad (a farmer) had a magpie trap. He had to keep one live magpie to catch the others so I guess that qualifies as a pet in a twisted sort of way!
I had a magpie when I was in school. Taken from nest, and then kept it in garage.
It would sit on my Bmx handlebars as I rode around, flapping to stay upright.
Had it for about two years I think. It would never fly more than 30ft away.
Unfortunately I later got a ferret and didn't secure either cages enough..