“A magpie can be happy or sad: sometimes so happy that he sits on a high, high gum tree and rolls the sunrise around in his throat like beads of pink sunlight; and sometimes so sad that you would expect the tears to drip off his beak. This magpie was like that.” AustraliaBirdsBirdsongAustralian LiteratureMagpie Book:Magpie Island Source: Magpie Island