NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO PROGRAMS
"MAD ABOUT MAGPIES"
Fledgling Magpie
Magpie Expert Chuck Trost
Many of us look to the natural world for clues to living a more harmonious, sustainable life. For instance, we aspire to those traits in animals we value: the wisdom of the owl, the noble bearing of the bald eagle, the grace of the swan. . . But producer Guy Hand wonders what Nature is trying to teach us when it starts acting like some pushy, poorly socialized uncle, the one with the loud voice who moves in uninvited and threatens to eat everything in sight.