Here's a bit of a 5 minute sketch for tonight, not up to my usual standard, but I wanted to highlight a specific thing that I may turn into a bigger piece eventually.
(Tldr; the word magpie has come to mean black and white, and so many things are named after it)
The term "magpie" is derived from two origins. The bird it was originally named for, the European Magpie, was named for Magaret, denoting chattiness(?) and old Latin "pīca", literally the Latin word for European Magpies. Subsequently, the term "pied" came about, which describes something with two colours, usually black and white.
So, the word "Magpie" was given to many other animals, often birds, that displayed colour-schemes similar to the European Magpie.
For example, the Black Magpie, although closely related to the European Maggie, comes from a family of colourful birds, and is one of the only species in its genus that is black and white.
The Australian Magpie, unlike these other two, is not even in the corvid genus, but is still a songbird, and was named specifically after the European species. And the Magpie Lark, which may have been named after either the Australian or European Magpie, is a type of flycatcher, distantly related to the others by a large margin.
Also pictured here is the Magpie Butterfly, a close relative of Monarch Butterflies, which is white with black splotches all over it. (Sorry for the massive infodump)