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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Spillane" data-source="post: 1234625" data-attributes="member: 67556">The past month or so I have been seeing a pair of pink magpies.  I have read about these on the forum, from some years ago, apparently they are very rare.  I live in West Yorkshire (England).  The birds are exactly like ordinary black and white magpies, but are black and pink, the pink colouring being where a normal bird is white.  Initially I saw one pink one and one that was a darker brick red, but more recently I just seem to see two pink ones.  They hang round with ordinary white magpies and behave exactly the same.  Mostly I see them about five o'clock in the morning from my bedroom window, from where I have taken some photos, although the first time I saw them was one afternoon.   I am still trying to take a decent close-up photo, which I will post if I fdinally manage to get it.I have read a couple of theories about these beautiful birds, but any further explanations would be welcome.  I am sceptical of the diet theory (like flamingoes, eating pink shrimps gives pink plumage), because I would not expect two local birds to have a very different diet to the other local birds.Anyone else seeing these birds and if so, where?</blockquote>