Today they can be seen as two bright stars on either side of the milky way ; but on the seventh day of the seventh month all the magpies in the world fly up to create a bridge across the galaxy , allowing the two lovers to spend a night together .
Crows and their relatives - among them ravens , magpies and jays - are renowned for their intelligence and for their ability to flourish in human-dominated landscapes . That ability may have to do with cross-species social skills .
They could only meet once a year on a bridge formed by magpies , who took pity on the separated couple .
他们一年只能够在桥上见一次面,而这座桥是由怜悯他们的喜鹊搭好的。
Just as magpies adorn their nests with shiny trinkets , young people seeking to burnish their credentials love to scour league tables to spot the world 's brightest universities .