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 ...

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 ...

Spring in Australia runs between September and November, when birds nest and breed, making this the season of the swooping butcherbird. "Some birds will all instinctively protect their territory ...

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 ...

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