The community-run Magpie Alert website logged 1,231 ... crashing his bicycle while attempting to avoid a swooping magpie. The previous year, child in Perth was almost blinded when a magpie ...

“Just walk calmly out of that swooping ... panic, run around and scream and try and retaliate,” he said. Once you’ve been swooped, Dooley recommends keeping “an eye on that magpie ...

Don't run. Travel in groups ... just to get away from this magpie. Australians are well accustomed to swooping birds - there are plovers, noisy miners and even the kookaburra.

The much-loved songbird is loathed for its tendancy to divebomb cyclists, pedestrians, and children ... the return of vicious swooping attacks from the Australian magpie. The melodious songbirds ...

We’re only two months into the four-month magpie “swooping season” but already more than 600 Australians have been attacked and almost 70 have been injured. And that’s just from those who ...

“It was on like Donkey Kong; I started screaming and running. I’m screaming for ... that he’d never been swooped Magpie swooping season is at its peak in September, but can last until ...

It's this behaviour that Emma, encouraged by her teacher, decided to research. So, during magpie swooping season, Emma camped in the playground and watched their resident magpie, Sir Swoopsalot ...

who was killed after running into the path of a car while fleeing a swooping magpie in the Queensland city of Ipswich last year. Samantha's father, George, questioned whether police and the NPWS ...