A research was carried out at university of Exeter to prove the myth wrong which says “magpies are nothing but trinket thieves”.
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It was yet believed that the magpies only gets attracted with the shiny metals such as jewelry etc. and hence they takes it with them.
But in recent study, it has been found that the magpies are really don’t very attracted with the shiny things, not even this, they always tries to avoid or ignore the shiny items.
A spokesman from the researching team explained that they placed both type of metals – shiny and non-shiny in the experiment.
But Wild magpies only made contact with a shiny object twice in 64 tests, and on both occasions, a silver ring was picked up and immediately discarded.
Both the shiny and blue objects were either ignored or avoided.
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