Magpie | The Wildlife Trusts

Please don’t feed magpies! This poor young magpie is suffering from metabolic bone disease, a serious condition caused by malnutrition after long-term human feeding. Sadly, we had no choice but to opt for euthanasia. We realise that many people like to feed their local magpies, in the hope of helping or befriending them, or perhaps to make up for the loss of wildlife habitat and food sources. People don’t often see the long-term effects of feeding - but we do. Serious nutritional deficiencies ca