Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Specialized "PieProof" helmets that protect ears and faces have also become popular during swooping season. Media reports have ...

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 ...

A woman was attacked by a magpie while working abroad. Marcela Montalva moved to Ravenswood, a small and remote town in the Australian Outback, from Chile around four months ago. She had been in the ...

Being swooped by a magpie is practically a rite of passage during nesting season. But a new app aims to change that.

On August 15, 2025, in Albury, Australia, @margal471 shared a video of a stubborn bird attacking a resident. In the video, the author is riding her bike when a magpie begins aggressively swooping at ...

The parents of a baby girl who died after her mother fell trying to avoid a swooping magpie in a Brisbane park have remembered their daughter as "a beautiful little angel". The five-month-old girl ...

Marcela Montalva, originally from Chile, was riding her bike to a local post office in Australia when the incident took place The woman suffered a broken neck and has multiple fractures in her cheek A ...

“Doctors told me I was lucky to be alive,” Marcela Montalva said A woman was attacked by a magpie while working abroad Marcela Montalva, originally from Chile, was riding her bike to a local post ...