A 12-year-old West Australian schoolgirl has been left with a devastating eye injury after being swooped by a magpie on her way home from school – an accident that will now see her face up to 18 ...

It's nesting season in Australia and people are on high alert for vicious swooping Australian magpies. The much-loved songbird is loathed for its tendancy to divebomb cyclists, pedestrians, and ...

Australian TikToker Sarah Jade Lagettie of NSW shares a real-life story of how she was attacked by a territorial magpie while out on an early morning walk. Striding briskly along the foreshore, I held ...

Oops, the bird did it again. A man claims that a territorial bird has singled him out after attacking him day after day on his route home from work. Alejandro Rios ...

Just days into spring, magpie swooping season is well and truly in flight. It’s already become such an issue for one northwest Sydney suburb that its council was reportedly forced to shoot a ...

It feels like a deleted scene from a comedy film, but this moment was very real. Hayden was simply at the driving range practicing and filming his golf swing when he suddenly found himself under ...

The magpie is a little bird that will attack if it perceives you as a threat. An eight-year-old girl in Australia conducted a study, and found the birds tend to attack men with thin or receding hair.

If it’s swooping season in Australia, cyclists can sometimes find a whole other reason to have a helmet on: to stop pesky pecking magpies from doing some serious damage. That was the case for ...

LATROBE Valley residents are once again being urged to take care outdoors, with swooping season underway across the region. Magpies aren’t the only culprits. Plovers are also known to defend their ...

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