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An interesting observation about some Australian Birds?
Ive noticed that quite often, a Magpie will be accompanied by a Noisy Miner. The noisy miner will follow it around and nearly always be with it. Not to attack or scare it or anything, it just follows it around, like they are best friends. Ive noticed this in several places, not just once, sometimes a single magpie will be followed by several miners! Any explainations? Anyone else noticed this?
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- PhantomLv 51 decade agoFavorite Answer
Mostly this activity is due to the noise minors trying to keep the predatory magpies away from their nests. Noisy minors live in extended family groups that help to raise the Alfa pairs young similar to kookaburras.
Scouts keep an eye on potential predators and follow them. If predators get near young then the predator is dive bombed/ chased even if bigger.
Magpies will eat bread but their main wild food is small and baby birds, lizards, insects, scavenging others kills and some fruits. .
Source(s): If the birds you saw had been hand raised together as orthans than once released by wires they may have imprintedon each other as the same species. This would be a human induced behaviour not a ussual wild behaviour. Noisy minors will eat most things a magpie would eat.
