Thieving Magpie | Clipmarks


	Thieving Magpie

abailart

1-8-2008 4:54 AM

200 views

tags:

criminal birds, mag[ies

abailart says:

May seem a mildly amusing story but is it any coincidence that German intelligence uncovered a military magpie training centre led by a cadre of Croatian squirrels only last week?

Add a Comment

Login to Comment. Not a member yet? Sign up

Blackwater Is Here to Stay

Man obsessed with violent Oliver Stone fil...

Russia threatens criminal action against U...

Do it yourself C-section

Man dies after cop hits him with Taser 9 ...

Prof. Alison mentioned later in article

More clips from abailart

A Night with Leonard Cohen

How the Weather Affects Mood: bioweather

Barack Rhetoric Rocks Berlin

Today's Top Clips

visit the Top Clips page

View the Top Clips from January 8, 2008

Embed This Clip In Your Site...

<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/51ca94a1-95b3-4ef5-9e32-704dd15fe842/BDDC15ED-B9FF-462C-8981-7E45860BA284/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,526445,00.html" href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,526445,00.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.spiegel.de</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,526445,00.html">A magpie living in a village near Berlin has advanced from street crime to brazen burglary, flying into people's houses, eating food from their tables and making itself comfortable on their sofas.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,526445,00.html"><P>"Elsa" first appeared in the village in mid-October and quickly made friends with the residents, swooping onto their shoulders and begging for food. </p> <P>"People would feed her nuts and everything was quite calm until two weeks ago," local resident Lydia Krüger, 73, told SPIEGEL ONLINE. "She decided she wasn't getting enough and just started taking what she wanted." </p> <P>"Now she flies straight into my living room through the window, eats my marzipan potatoes and chocolates on the table and sits on the sofa," said Krüger.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,526445,00.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.spiegel.de/img/96A80F6E-7B67-4F94-AEE5-252AFF962016" alt="Archive photo of a magpie about to break into a vehicle. " /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BDDC15ED-B9FF-462C-8981-7E45860BA284/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

Clipmarks: Home; New Clips; Top Clips; Dashboard

Popular Topics: News; Life; Science; Technology; Entertainment

Get Started: Sign Up; Install Clipping Tool; How Clipping Works; Clip-to-Blog™; ClipSearch

Tools and Resources: FAQ; ClipWeek; Top Clippers; Top Tags; Site Map

About Clipmarks: About Us; Contact; Blog; Copyright; Privacy; EULA

Search Options

Related Clips

More clips from abailart

Today's Top Clips