We’re only two months into the four-month magpie “swooping season” but already more than 600 Aussies have been attacked and almost 70 have been injured. Deals of the Week In the know quiz ...

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 ...

The 40-year-old, who did not want to be named, was heading back to her car at Coogee in Sydney’s eastern suburbs when a “massive” magpie appeared from nowhere and swooped, injuring her left eye.

One website, Magpie Alert, offers a magpie swooping map and a daily tally of swoops and injuries. This year to date, there have been 2,043 swoops recorded and 264 injuries.

While the majority of them are well behaved, about 10 per cent of magpies become “boisterous” and aggressive because they see humans as a threat, Birdlife Australia’s Dr Holly Parsons ...

A mum has been left with a bloody and bruised eye after a horror magpie attack during her morning beach walk. Read Today's Paper Tributes. Rewards. Subscribe for $4. Sign In. Read Today's Paper; ...

While spring marks magpie swooping season, it turns out there are many different, not to mention disgusting, ways other Australian birds protect their young while they are in the nest.

While spring marks magpie swooping season, it turns out there are many different, not to mention disgusting, ways other Australian birds protect their young while they are in the nest.

Magpie Alert has recorded 1332 swooping reports and 152 injuries so far this year. "Only about 10 per cent of the magpies ever attack anybody ... 90 per cent never attack anybody," Jones said.

This Is How Australian Magpies Are Like Something From A Horror Film. Swooping season gets a hard pass from me. By ... resulting in occassional injury and drawing blood, and, ...