• In captivity, the common magpie can live up to 30 years, which significantly exceeds its lifespan in the wild.

Eurasian magpies experience several developmental stages, beginning with the embryo developing inside an egg. The nestling stage follows, during which the young are fed by their parents and lasts from three weeks and one day to one month. This is followed by the adult stage, which enables reproduction and independent living and spans from one to twenty years. The species typically lives for ten to fifteen years, although the maximum recorded lifespan is twenty-one years and nine months, with a theoretical lifespan ranging from fifteen years and three months to nineteen years and seven months. Sexual maturity is reached between one year and six months and two years and six months. The adult stage lasts from one to twenty years.