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Magpie is a common name describing several genera of the bird family Corvidae.
Magpie or magpies may also refer to:
Animals
Other Birds
- Australian magpie, a medium-sized black and white passerine bird native to Australia and southern New Guinea
Butterflies and moths
- Magpie (butterfly), the milkweed butterfly Protoploea apatela from the New Guinea region
- Abraxas grossulariata, a moth in the family Geometridae, called the magpie in Great Britain and Ireland
- Eurrhypara hortulata, a moth in the family Pyralidae, called the small magpie in Great Britain and Ireland
- Nyctemera amicus, a moth in the family Arctiidae from south-east Asia and Australasia, sometimes called the magpie moth
- Nyctemera annulata, a moth in the family Arctiidae, called the magpie moth in New Zealand
Other animals
- Magpie cat, a bicolor cat with irregular black-and-white spotting
- Magpie perch or magpie morwong (Cheilodactylus nigripes, a fish of family Cheilodactylidae)
Places
- Magpie, a settlement in the municipality of Rivière-Saint-Jean, Quebec, Canada
- Magpie Creek, a stream in North Dakota, USA
- Magpie Lane, Oxford, a very narrow historic lane in central Oxford, England
- Magpie River (Ontario), Canada
- Magpie River (Quebec), Canada
- Magpie, Quebec, a community in Canada
- Magpie, Victoria, a suburb of Ballarat in Australia
Sports clubs
Australia
- Collingwood Magpies, an Australian Football League club
- Hay Magpies, a rugby league club based in the New South Wales town of Hay
- Port Adelaide Magpies, a South Australian National Football League club
- Souths Logan Magpies, a Queensland Cup club
- Western Suburbs Magpies, a NSWRL Premier League club
- Western Magpies Australian Football Club, an AFL Queensland State League club
- Western Suburbs Magpies AFC, an Australian rules football club in Sydney
United Kingdom
- Chorley F.C., an English football club
- Newcastle United F.C., an English football club
- Notts County F.C., an English football club
- Maidenhead United F.C., an English football club
Elsewhere
- F.C. Bruno's Magpies, a Gibraltar football club
- Rabat Ajax F.C., a Maltese football club
- New York Magpies, United States Australian Football League team
- Hawke's Bay (National Provincial Championship), a New Zealand rugby union team
Music
- Magpie Records, a British record label set up in 1976 by Bruce Bastin
- Magpie (folk duo), an American folk duo formed in the 1970s
- Magpie, an album by Stephen Fretwell
Songs
- "The Magpie", a Russian art song - see List of compositions by Modest Mussorgsky
- "Magpie", from the 2001 Death by Chocolate album Death by Chocolate by, based on the nursery rhyme "One for Sorrow"
- "Magpie", B-side of the 1994 single "Girls & Boys" by the English rock band Blur
- "Magpie", on the album The Magic Position by Patrick Wolf
- "Morning Mr. Magpie", on the 2011 album The King of Limbs by the English band Radiohead
- "Magpie", a song by The Mountain Goats on their album The Sunset Tree
- "Magpie to the Morning", from the 2009 album Middle Cyclone by the American folk singer Neko Case
- "Magpie", from the 2015 album Mount the Air by The Unthanks, based on the nursery rhyme "One for Sorrow"
Other uses
- HMS Magpie, eight Royal Navy ships
- MAGPIE, a pulsed-power generator based at Imperial College London
- MAgPIE, a scientific model for land and water use
- The Magpie (Monet) ("La Pie"), an 1869 painting by Monet
- Magpie (TV series), British children's television show, broadcast 1968–1980 on ITV
- Magpie (character), a kleptomaniac supervillain in the Batman series of comics
- Magpie, Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway steam locomotive built in 1861
- Magpie, a serif typeface designed by Vincent Connare
- Magpie, the magazine of the now defunct Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE)
See also
- "The Magpies", the most famous poem by New Zealand poet Denis Glover (1912–1980)
- The Other Magpie, a Native American woman who fought in the Black Hills War
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