it ain't just bikes they swoop on.pic.twitter.com/N6u4LRrW8K
Australia is plagued with a danger to cyclists: Magpies. These territorial birds will patrol the area around their nest, and if a cyclist happens to pass, the bird will swoop down and relentlessly attack the cyclist's helmet. Cyclists create magpie-fighting helmets with spikespic.twitter.com/QQbfHfH1xP
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I have a scar on the back of my head from when a magpie swooped my helmetless head when I was 9. It hit me so hard that part of its beak broke off, embedded in my skull!
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This cannot be real. What?!
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as an australian i can vouch for this, ive been swooped a couple of times
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That sounds terrifying! Do people wear these helmets in Australia to ward off the attacks?
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yeah some cyclists do, not everyone does though because not all magpies swoop
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Wow. You learn something new every day. I wish you the best of luck against magpie swoops in all your spring cycling endeavors.
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Although you can make friends with them and they won’t swoop you. We call our backyard ones the Cheese Birds, every day one will come down & say hi, it gets a tiny corner of cheese & then it’s two friends rocket down for their own bit. We never get swooped.
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yeah most magpies are fine, i have some in my backyard and all they do is sing pretty songs
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I mean its Australia, they fought Emus and lost once.
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It's even worse when the emus start swooping.
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@WendyBirdOZ tell me you got one of these -
Thankfully, we don't have magpies where I live, but if I was living in Perth and walking/cycling I would definitely have something similar. I've seen too many people getting swooped and read news stories of kids being blinded by those bastards.
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Swooping magpies are usually males with enlarged testicles.
#AnimalFacts http://wheredobirdsgo.blogspot.com/2006/11/magpies-and-their-enormous-testicles.html?m=1 … -
Just like a Tanooki, it helps them fly.
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