As well as being visited by the young singing magpie at the CREEC café, a juvenile pied butcherbird decided to join me briefly to see if there were nibbles available (there were not!) It was in the process of moulting and looking scruffy, unlike the sleekly beautiful adults.
The butcherbirds have even lovelier songs than magpies, but this one declined to sing for me :)
https://birdlife.org.au/bird-profile/pied-butcherbird
@admin yup, corvids are wicked smart that way :)
@anathema_device In my area the covids have to fight the seagulls for food. One way I've found to give the local crows food is to throw out those two cracker saltine packs in plastic. The seagulls will ignore or drop them but the crows know that they can take them away and open them for a little treat.