frostbite
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Post by frostbite on Sept 3, 2022 19:51:13 GMT 10
Magpies kill people here. Seriously. I had one try to kill me a few times. Well maybe several hundred times. When he wasn't body slamming me to the head, he would claw my shoulder and try to peck my eye out. At 30-40km/h on my motorcycle that is life threatening. So I got all the bull$hit paperwork filled in and had the offending bird vaporised, point blank with a shotgun on a suburban street. Had a huge grin on my face that day.
Metro idiots claim the bird is just acting instinctively. That's rubbish. Never seen a magpie outside of town act like that.
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rastus
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Post by rastus on Sept 3, 2022 20:58:41 GMT 10
Ozzyman explains Australian Magpies best:
As Frostbite noted, the attacks tend to be a suburban issue rather than a country issue. My mob (extended family in an area) of magpies are on good terms with us as we leave daily fresh water out for the birds, and they are intelligent and social.
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Tim Horton
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Post by Tim Horton on Sept 5, 2022 1:14:29 GMT 10
Interesting.... Your magpie is as big or a bit bigger than our raven.. I don't know if the raven here is a corvids like the crow, but our and your magpie are not considered part of that bird family..
Also interesting the difference in behavior of urban and rural birds.. I can understand that as the urban birds here are much more human tolerant than rural birds..
I know your lamb producers are 100% hostile on the magpie and likely other corvids type birds as they prey on lambs..
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tactile
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Post by tactile on Sept 7, 2022 19:51:59 GMT 10
I was walking across the road in country town a few years ago and I thought someone had come up behind me and hit me over the head with a hammer! I seriously thought that's what happened...it put me down on one knee. But I reckon it pinged him (the magpie) as much as me because he took off all wonky and I never saw him again. 
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rastus
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Post by rastus on Sept 18, 2022 21:56:25 GMT 10
I think the urban birds are just more stressed out and over stimulated. Around my place they know all the people and their quirks, who to trust and who not to. The nearest road is quiet and the birds themselves have well defined territory and threats.
In the urban areas, lotsa unknown people, high population density cats, dogs and cars. Major roads. Endless noise. IMO they just get barmy, like many humans do in the city and suburbia.
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