What does the Black-billed Magpie eat?

The Black-billed Magpie's diet shapes where and when you'll find it. Understanding what it eats helps you predict where to look.

Diet overview

Omnivore, with a highly varied diet including insects, carrion, small mammals, nestlings, eggs, fruits, seeds, and human refuse.

How it forages

Highly opportunistic and adaptable. Forages on the ground, in trees, and around human settlements. Diet includes insects (grasshoppers, beetles), carrion (roadkill, animal carcasses), small mammals (rodents), eggs and nestlings of other birds, fruits, berries, seeds, and human food scraps. They are known to cache food.

When it feeds

Diurnal.

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