Australian Magpies Do Sing Every Day Of The Year Poem by Francis Duggan

Most male birds in their breeding Season singing one does hear
But the Australian magpies do sing every day of the year
And in late Winter and early Spring they often sing at night
So pleasant to hear them piping in the moonlight
The white backed and the black backed magpies in Australia are plentiful Nationwide
In every village, town and city and in the countryside
Territorial by Nature and in their aggressive way
They defend their borders with aggression against their own kind every day
Not corvids as true magpies are the Australian magpies are related to the shrike family
Piping shrikes another name for them though magpies the name used for them usually
In town parks, backyards and country paddocks seen and heard every day
Birds known to everyone in Australia would be true to say
They live in small family flocks of varied food choice
They prey on small birds, skinks, insects and worms and frogs and mice.