I would bet that domesticated birds do not have the same habits as wild birds, so I'm not sure that one can take that as successfully debunked. I have never se

I would bet that domesticated birds do not have the same habits as wild birds, so I'm not sure that one can take that as successfully debunked. I have never seen a magpie nest with silver/shiny things though. Most casual observers in Australia might confuse the magpie with the bower bird (lemme smash / want sum bekky bird), which does collect blue/shiny things and its nest is at ground level.