Magpie is a common bird, which often appears between the foot of the mountain and the edge of the forest, between trees, roofs and crops around villages or cities. In the early morning, they often fly to open fields and vegetable gardens in pairs or in groups in search of food. They are omnivorous birds. According to the investigation of scientific workers in Nanjing and Hunan, more than 80% of magpies' food in a year is insects that harm crops, such as locusts, grubs, scarabs, moth larvae or pine caterpillars. And 65,438+05% are the seeds of cereals and plants, as well as birds, snails, melons and weeds. So magpies are very beneficial to human beings. Hard-working farmers, working in the fields in the early morning, see magpies jumping in pairs on the grass to chase pests, and will not avoid humans, so they have a love for it, and its loud and monotonous chirping is hailed as a good omen. In the ancient book Miscellanies of Xijing, there is a saying that "dry magpies make trouble and pedestrians arrive", which must be the reason why magpies report good news.
Magpies reporting good news is a folk superstition and has no scientific basis.