The clever birds are also vindictive and will target anyone they feel slighted by, even years later. It's springtime in Australia, which means the return of vicious swooping attacks from the ...

Their beautiful warble is a quintessential Australian sound and ... Australians are well accustomed to swooping birds - there are plovers, noisy miners and even the kookaburra.

These iconic black and white birds, native to Australia, are generally charming songbirds, but during breeding season, become fierce defenders of their nests, swooping down on any perceived threat ...

Spring has sprung and for many Australians that means keeping an eye on the skies for the ever-looming threat of aerial bombardment. While spring marks magpie swooping season, it turns out there ...

Australia, yesterday. Photo: AFP “Magpies can be quite territorial and there’s going to be a lot going on in their particular areas,” Paul Partland from the Illawarra Animal Hospital told local radio ...

An Aussie influencer has captured the horrifying moment a swooping bird attacked her, forcing its entire beak into her eye as she was filming her “hot girl walk”. Sarah Jade, who said she is ...

In short: Brisbane City Council says it received 2,490 reports of swooping birds between 2021 and 2023, and relocated 46 birds over the same period. Urban ecologist Darryl Jones from Griffith ...

A Sky News reporter got some instant criticism of his work live on air on Tuesday when a bird ... Bank of Australia's (RBA) monthly announcement on interest rates. But it was the swooping bird ...

Each spring, magpies swoop on countless unsuspecting victims while defending their nests.