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 ...

Take an alternative route. The best way to avoid being swooped is to avoid known swooping locations during the breeding ...

Have you ever been woken up or kept awake by a particularly chirpy bird outside your window, even though the Sun is down? Bright city lights may be to blame, according to a new study published in the ...

If you live in Australia or New Zealand, the coming of spring is a mixed blessing. The days get warmer. Flowers bloom. Birds nest. It's this last change which can be a problem. Nesting makes male ...

Magpie swooping season is upon us – but this Adelaide man believes he’s found the perfect hack to avoid falling victim.

Researchers in Queensland fitted five Australian magpies with tiny GPS trackers, hoping to map their movements and understand how age, sex or rank affected the way the flock behaved. The birds had ...

For many New Zealanders, the Australian magpie is a familiar, if sometimes vexing, sight. Introduced from Australia in the 1860s, magpies are known for their territorial dive-bombing during the ...

When Jon Clark swapped his native Britain for a new life Down Under, he knew some of the threats posed by Aussie wildlife.

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 ...

As blazes tear through Victoria and New South Wales, a magpie has been filmed mimicking the sound of emergency vehicles. In ...

The team behind the pilot study, made up of researchers Joel Crampton, Celine Frere and Dominique Potvin, worked with a social group of magpies at Pacific Paradise on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. They ...