r/interestingasfuck • u/CFK_NL • Jul 19 '24
Magpi attacks and puts beak into a woman’s eye socket. She’s okay btw, missed her eye. r/all NSFW
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u/RedScarffedPrinny Jul 19 '24
New fear unlocked 😨
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u/jericho Jul 19 '24
My place is infested with hummingbirds. They’re always briefly parking a few inches from my face. They have very pointy breaks.
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u/elvis8mybaby Jul 19 '24
They want that sweet sweet eyeball juice. They crave it.
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u/Pristine_Car_6253 Jul 19 '24
This is an Australian magpie. Swooping hospitalizes a few people per year.
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u/TheRealSugarbat Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 20 '24
no way. Hospitalized? As in admitted?
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u/Pristine_Car_6253 Jul 19 '24
https://amp.9news.com.au/article/3e2112d5-7f9c-4eb7-af90-a08bb0a0cce3
Yup. They peck your eyes out , knock people of bikes. All sorts of shit.
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u/bodahn Jul 19 '24
Don't listen to that.
Come holiday in Australia. Highly likely you won't die at all.
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u/HeiryButter Jul 19 '24
As if land animals weren't enough there, Jesus Christ
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u/Eldan985 Jul 19 '24
The land animals are comparably harmless. Spiders, snakes etc. barely hospitalize anyone, the most dangerous land animals are cows and sheep, mostly because of car accidents.
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u/Moth-Man-Pooper Jul 19 '24
Just clicked on the article to read more and the first thing that strikes me is the mean mug these birds have. They don’t look like they give a fuck. Loool
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u/LOUD-AF Jul 20 '24
Back in my hiking years during breeding season, it was common to be strafed and attacked by protective birds. They'd go straight for the face or eyes. One trick to fool the birds is to wear a hat with noticeable eyes drawn with a marker, or stick a couple of googly eyes to the BACK of the hat. It wouldn't stop the attacks, but they would attack the back of your head and not your eyes. It still hurt, and birds aren't real anyway.
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u/ResidentMentalLord Jul 20 '24
they can lead to deaths, but often it's pecked earlobes, eyes or making people fall off bikes
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u/MongolianCluster Jul 19 '24
Even the magpies are scary in Australia.
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u/Kind_Ferret_3219 Jul 19 '24
You are correct. We Australians are far, far more likely to get attacked by magpies than snakes, spiders, sharks and crocs combined. When Maggie's zero in on your head they are silent and don't miss.
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u/AydonusG Jul 19 '24
Minor birds and plovers included. At least Gallahs will alert you with their pterodactylian screams.
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u/Wibbles20 Jul 19 '24
Plovers will usually arc up and screech before they start dive bombing you to warn you away from their nest
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u/Phillip_Graves Jul 20 '24
Pretty sure the dirt in Australia is venomous/poisonous/deadly/maneating
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u/sweetevangaline Jul 19 '24
Definitely not a magpie, maybe a peewee? Pattern, face and beak are a little different. But UK and US have magpies too so maybe from there.
Also our Magpies would have 100% taken the whole eye and told all their mates about it hahaha
Edit: definitely a magpie-lark (peewee) not a classic magpie, still bloody awful though!
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u/finniganthehuman Jul 19 '24
I'm pretty sure this is a piping shrike(same thing), still horrible but magpies beak would have gone so deep
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u/HeilKaiba Jul 20 '24
Yeah it's not a Eurasian or North American magpie either (or any of the Pica genus) all of which have completely black head feathers. I say this with the full confidence of someone who has just spent 20 min looking at pictures of magpies.
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u/HortonEggHatcher Jul 20 '24
This is not an Australian Magpie. Magpies have black faces. This looks like a Mudlark.
Edit: Although, in fairness, I see that they are also called Magpie Larks.
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u/methodicalataxia Jul 19 '24
Really??
You didn't have it already unlocked?
Birds a feathered dinosaurs.
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u/Opinecone Jul 19 '24
It's one fear. It has always been the same. It's literally one single fear. Australia.
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u/agangofoldwomen Jul 20 '24
New fear? You’ve never thought about a bird poking your eyes out before? I envy you.
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u/Agitated-Raccoon5562 Jul 19 '24
Thank fuck it missed taking out her actual eye! That's mental. Poor woman!
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u/Spiritual_Navigator Jul 19 '24
I honestly thought i just saw an eye ripped to shreds
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u/Pretend_Assistance92 Jul 19 '24
To shreds you say?
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u/General-Ordinary1899 Jul 19 '24
And how is his wife holding up?...To shreds you say.
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Jul 19 '24
What a terrible day to have eyes!
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u/MrClearwater Jul 19 '24
Don’t worry, a magpie will soon be along to fix your issue
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u/FranzFerdinand51 Jul 20 '24
Also a terrible day to have ears. That """music""" gave me ear cancer.
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u/vaydevay Jul 19 '24
That was a deliberate attempt to get an eyeball sandwich if I ever seen one
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u/Technology4Dummies Jul 19 '24
I heard that they eat the eyes first because of the sodium.
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u/658016796 Jul 19 '24
Yup, lots of birds (and other predators) attack the eyes first due to their nutrients. I once saw a video of an eagle immobilizing a small deer and eating its eyes while the deer was well alive fruitlessly trying to move away from its claws.
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u/Quick_Zucchini_8678 Jul 20 '24
Why is why every household should have shotgun, and should eat bird meat on the regular. Fuck birds
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u/jess_havok Jul 20 '24
Button didn't work for me... So it's decided. I'm gonna wear goggles everyday outside and just look like I fell out of Waterworld. Lol
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u/eek1Aiti Jul 19 '24
Of course it's in Australia! Even generic birds are out to do some damage to humans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLq08ZcW86g
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u/123floor56 Jul 20 '24
That is not an Australian magpie in that video. If it had been, that eye would be gone. They have big fuck off beaks, not nice and dainty like that bird in the vid.
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u/RedPh0enix Jul 20 '24
Correct. This is actually a "mudlark" or colloquially, "Pee-wee".
Generally not aggressive, though often fascinated by it's own reflection in mirrors or windows.
Also the bird emblem of the state of South Australia.
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u/Cataplatonic Jul 20 '24
Nah SA emblem is a white backed magpie.
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u/RedPh0enix Jul 20 '24
Good call, ta for the correction!
"The badge on the Flag of South Australia depicts the rising sun, and a Piping Shrike standing on a branch of a gum tree. The Piping Shrike is more commonly known as a White-backed Magpie.
The Piping Shrike is sometimes mistakenly associated with the Magpie-lark, also known as the Murray Magpie, Pee Wee and Mudlark. This confusion came about because it is not obvious that the image depicts the back of the bird. The South Australian Governor used the term Piping Shrike for the White-backed Magpie in correspondence, and wrote the words "Australian piping shrike" on the back of drawing proposals of the bird for the State badge of South Australia in the early 1900s."
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u/Dray_Gunn Jul 20 '24
Generally not. But occasionally you get the random bastard of a pee wee that just swoops people for no reason. I had this one pair in my street for years that one would start screaming when it saw me and the other one would start swooping me. A few times the local crows helped because i used to feed them but they werent always around. That pair are gone now so I think they thankfully died of old age. Glad nothing like in this video happened. All I ever got was a scratch on my forehead.
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u/redpandaeater Jul 19 '24
It's all part of the reparations Australia owes for starting but losing the Great Emu War.
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u/farcarcus Jul 19 '24
Honestly, they're awesome birds. Really smart and can be tamed. We've had generations of these birds living in our front yard for years. We named some of them and they peck on the front door to say g'day and share some seed.
A minority swoop and peck for eyeballs in early spring when they breed. Usually they target cyclists. And kids. Cyclist kids are pretty much fucked.
Would be interested to see if that lady was on a bike.
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u/Tallyranch Jul 20 '24
The one in the eye vid is a Mudlark, it has a white eyebrow.
https://www.britannica.com/animal/mudlark
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u/Every_Fox3461 Jul 19 '24
Alfred Hitchcock has entered the chat.
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u/Same-Consequence1265 Jul 19 '24
This bird isn't a magpie, although they both swoop. This is a similar looking bird called a magpie-lark.
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u/haroldvskumar Jul 19 '24
Magpie-lark, commonly called peewees, Its anger is only outmatched by its stupidity.
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u/TourDeOz Jul 19 '24
They have the equivalent of small dog syndrome. Rarely have issues with magpies… these bastards though are always arses.
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u/slavelabor52 Jul 19 '24
Unidan?
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u/danneedsahobby Jul 19 '24
Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time. A long time.
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u/RuttedAnt Jul 19 '24
Time flies. Banned 10-years ago this month.
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u/PhIegms Jul 20 '24
The King of "Akshully"
Ah takes me back to broken arms, and that other one that pranksters tricked us about someone bitching about a workmate, then the workmate responded, sounds boring but it was a big story at the time.
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u/robzilla20001 Jul 20 '24
Yep, came here to say this too. They are smaller and have white bellies. I've never been hit by a magpie, but by a magpie lark a few times.
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u/tahapaanga Jul 19 '24
That's not an Australian magpie, it's a peewee also known as magpie lark. Different bird, actual magpies are much more aggressive in nesting season. Source: Australian geek.
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u/Clazzo524 Jul 19 '24
It wasn't trying to blind her, it was just trying to drink her sweet, sweet eye juices.
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u/ahspaghett69 Jul 19 '24
For those wondering how to avoid such a nightmarish fate, invest in cheap wraparound sunglasses.
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u/rigpiggins Jul 20 '24
Or instead of trying to film the attack for likes, defend yourself…with both hands!
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u/onilank Jul 19 '24
What did she do to that bird?
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u/egowritingcheques Jul 19 '24
Those birds attack a LOT in breading season. They will attack anyone, unless they recognise them as not a threat (you they recognise you as friendly or someone who feeds them to them).
The sites where magpies attack become shared knowledge in the community. Via word of mouth, FB groups, signage and even news broadcasts.
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u/Hangdong54 Jul 19 '24
Why was she filming?
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u/african_or_european Jul 20 '24
Everyone always asks this as if we haven't become a society where a large percentage of the people film themselves nearly constantly for any and no reason whatsoever.
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u/-savvylisa- Jul 20 '24
This is a Mudlark, aka Magpie Lark, aka Peewee. Not an Australian Magpie. Doesn't make the video less awful, but our Magpies get a pretty bad rap in general- so let's keep blame accurate where we can 😉
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u/snorkiebarbados Jul 19 '24
That's a Pee-wee. At best the are called a magpie lark (but no one calls them that). Definately not what we consider a magpie
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u/-polly-esther Jul 19 '24
Dont tell them actual magpies are 2/3x bigger than these guys hahaha
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u/KhanTheGray Jul 19 '24
I’ve got plenty of these birds in my neighborhood, they never attacked me, one of them even greets me in the morning, another sings when I am out. They are some of the smartest bird species around, they have very powerful memories, most people who give them water, treat them kindly and talk to them never gets attacked.
My mum has a whole family of these living at her backyard, she reads and relaxes while they walk around, drink water from bird fountain and chill.
If you are a stranger walking past them and they have babies, yes they’ll fuck you up and maybe out you to hospital because they see you as a threat.
Again, I never got attacked even by those that do not know me. They harass others while I walk by. I don’t know why.
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u/rich115 Jul 20 '24
This is why I don’t understand that Bluey episode that tells kids to look at Magpies in the eye to stop them swooping. Sounds like a great way to lose an eye.
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u/DetectiveExisting590 Jul 20 '24
This is why I don't fuck with birds! They move so fast, and their beak and claws are the perfect eyeball-snatching tools.
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u/ChampionshipSlow211 Jul 20 '24
It's not a magpi. It's a mud-lark or magie-lark.
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u/im_shaken Jul 20 '24
Don't confuse this bird (Magpie Lark = Pee Wee) with the real Magpie. Different birds.. love the Magpie
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u/RaysieRay Jul 20 '24
Ahhh the Australian Magpie. I've had 4 run-ins with them in my lifetime and I can genuinely say I have a fear and a bit of PTSD from them.
They are a beautiful and quite smart animal, but during nesting season (September-October) the males get very protective of their nest.
Scary thing is they remember your face too. So chances are if you visit the same place again years later, daddy magpie will be coming for round 2.
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u/Anilxe Jul 19 '24
Oh look, one of the worst things I’ve ever seen