I'd say the majority of Aussies love our magpies. During the swooping season they're just protecting their hatchlings and any parent can relate to that. For the rest of the year they are a delight to have around.
They only swoop if they think you're a threat to them and their hatchlings. If they know you and are used to having you around then they'll never swoop on you for you're not perceived as a threat. I have a family of Magpies and they've never swooped on me because they know me. When the young ones are learning to feed for themselves they never give the parents a moments peace for they constantly pester them for food. I watch the young ones trying to dig grubs out of the ground without much success and they go back to pestering a parent who only gives them a morsel of food to shut them up for a second or two.
Magpies won the award for the most beautiful bird call in Australia. Voted all over Australia. They are fantastically smart birds and I absolutely love them. Love waking up to their songs. 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺♥️♥️♥️
I would have voted the: currawong🩵, which is part of the magpie family. They sound absolutely heavenly. Every time I hear one, as we have a tonne of trees in the yard and the neighbours, it’s always breathtaking. But also hearing the kookaburra 🥰.
I found an injured magpie in the backyard, wrapped it in a towel and took it to the vet. They asked where I found it, so weeks later the vet people brought him back to release him in the same place, so he could find his way home. All at no cost.
When my mother was ill Magpies started visiting her and their babies too, they sang when they arrived so she would bring food out! Her ginger cat learned magpie speak too and always sat chatting away like they were his friends! When she eventually went to live in a nursing home they slowly left! 🤗
Our neighbour always feeds the magpies, their babies and all the other birds like parrots etc. Consequently we have a lot of birds in our street all year round. We've never once been swooped by a magpie while gardening or walking the dogs. All the birds are super friendly around here 😊
We have a family of magpies visit our yard every year for the last at least 20 years. They sing to you, follow you around etc. They can be vicious. When it is time for the next year's breeding they chase off their young and they really get nasty, pecking and attacking them until they leave the parents territory. It's sad when the babies get chased off as you have bonded with the whole magpie family. We have a family of Kookaburras, King Parrots, Cockatoos, Lorikeets, Rosellas that visit our yard. They love to hang off the bottle brush tree sucking nectar etc or pecking at pine cones etc. I'm biased but I think Australia has some of the prettiest birds around and they are so entertaining.
Ryan should you feed them they remember you there so smart. My dear mother would feed them they would turn up peeping through her windows at the front door, waiting to be fed, . You should try and come out here with your family and check it all out, I’m sure you’d blown away. 😊😊😊
New Zealand has a few nice birds but I love Aussie birds and especially Magpies. I love hearing them from the tall Pines in the morning and watching their antics.
Ryan...look up Molly and Peggy. Molly is a male magpie (strange name). He was rescued as a baby after a big storm on the Gold Coast, Queensland. Peggy is a staffordshire terrier. They have become world famous. The magpie chooses to live with the family although it can fly free at any time.
Ryan, please(!!) look beyond the hype about magpie aggression. Male magpies swoop during breeding season to protect their nestlings. Only males, only a few weeks per year, and, despite the media hysteria, only a small percentage of those swoop aggressively. They are highly intelligent. They live over 20 years, recognise individual humans in their territory, and respond to those individuals according to how the humans act toward them.
This is true. I like birds and animals in general, so I've always noticed and interacted kindly with local magpies. Whistle a tune and make a few clicks every time you see one, so it looks you in the eye. Never give them grief, and they will never give you any. I have never been swooped by a magpie in all my life. Noisy miners on the other hand.... every bloody spring.
I feed the magpies everyday however when I leave my home the bastards swoop until I’m back on the block, it doesn’t bother me I tell them no more food, they give me the side eye walking into the kitchen to be fed, one of them sits on my dogs back as he walks around the back yard
My daughter saw a magpie in her yard, so she went in and got a few mealworms (she has a lizard that eats the mealworms) and put them on her porch for it. Now it comes to her house every day begging for food. She named the magpie Patches, and it now even responds to that name. It's become so used to her that it sits on her hand and will let her stroke it. Patches has bought friends with him at times, but they aren't as trusting as Patches. It's amazing to watch, but it doesn't surprise me, because my daughter has always loved all animals, and I think they sense that.
She is a wonderful soul. And she has her own channel and Insta page. She has a very special bond with these birds. They don't attack people. They defend their nests at mating time though. And, if you befriend your local magpies, they won't attack you when they have babies. They will actually bring their fledglings to meet you if they trust you. And, they remember people. They KNOW you. They remember good and bad people and will attack people who have tried to harm them in the past. They will also greet you if you were a good friend, and they see you months later. They are unique birds.
Those were southern magpies probably in Victoria. Magpies and kookaburras are the most people friendly birds in Australia. Magpies spend much of their life on the ground and will let humans get very close before walking rather than flying away. If you feed and befriend them they will not attack you. I have had them often just walk into the house looking for me to feed them just like a cat or dog. Kookaburras are equally as friendly to people but spend most of their time in trees or perched on something like a patio rail.
I though Vic too. I have made friends with the wattle birds who own my back yard bird bath, I was actually surprised to read they have a reputation for being aggressive. They're all Aussie legends, we're so so lucky here.
Birds do remember. I’ve returned the call of king parrots round my neighbourhood for years and now often when I walk around my suburb they call when they see me.
I've never had king parrots before but a local crew lives my acorns out the front so we have 10+ visit. They are so chilled, even more so since I've been chatting to them.
With their fancy red pants. Such pretty faces. The wattle birds in my hood are the same, they even know my car & escort me in when I'm in home territory 🥰
Magpies are my favs. I rescued a magpie from a cat when I was a kid. The magpie lived with us for a few years (couldn’t fly) and learnt to talk. Since then, I’ve loved magpies. I have a family that lives near me and visits regularly., Never been swooped in my life. I think word has gotten around that I’m ok.
I think birds can access collective memory of all their species in a region. Like the research the "100th Monkey" touches on. It would be a smart survival mode, to know which humans, or type of humans, are safer than others. Perhaps some birds are also better at adapting to human habitation too. Very observant of human behaviour. But I tend to think it's not just observational, but somehow knowledge passed on down the generations...
Magpies are charming and so bright, they aren't aggressive once they get to know you. I have a family visit my back yard. I talk to them all and they get comfortable.
We have a magpie family that we have been feeding for 3 years. They come everyday with their new babies and sit on the fence to let us know they are there and sing until we bring the food out then they get stuck into the food. They are so cute. We've never been attacked by any of our local Maggie's.
Animals are smarter than we give them credit for. I have a 'collection' of wild birds who visit and talk to me. They all have their own personalities and names. Magpies, Butcherbirds, Rainbow Lorikeets, Crested Pigeons, Blue-faced Honeyeaters, Noisy Miners, Crows...they all come when called and also follow me around. Such curious creatures.
Magpies also have a good sense of people as well. My daughter went to a school surrounded by a park that hosted many magpies. They never attacked me or her, but they would swoop her dad. If she was cranky with him, she would walk as slow as she could through the magpies, and they would swoop him but never her. Very funny to watch.
So true, they do recognise people. I’d sit in the garden and magpies were around. Then they had babies, they can get very protective of their young, but because they’d see me each season, it was wonderful watching mum feeding them, then bubs squawking to be fed and she refused as she wanted them to find their own food. Yes they remembered me and trusted me as I’d just sit quietly and watch them each season - and then I moved. I still miss them.
Maggie's are lovely birds. We have three generations of a Maggie family that visit us most days. We love them dearly and they're a part of everyone's lives. 🐦⬛
I absolutely love the Magpies call. It's so unique and just says Australia for me. We generally love animals because we have some of the most beautiful and unique animals in the world, and most of us appreciate that. Maggies are no exception. They are a beautiful and intelligent bird.
I mow lawns and look after other people's gardens, and I have magpies around me looking for worms and other things to eat. When magpies get to know you and know you will do them no harm they just get on with their life and leave you alone.
Our water metre out the front had a leak so I dug a whole around it, whilst digging a magpie landed right next to me and was happily eating worms out of my hand :)
I think mowing is a good way to get to know the birds. They know when you're going to do it and hang around while you're at it. Even moreso now that I have a battery mower.
A friend raised a magpie from a baby...It could impersonate every family member..including the 3 dogs... Maggie lived for years...until one day she started building a nest....days later she put all her toys into this giant nest...curled up into it herself ..and gently passed away... She was a huge character....❤❤❤❤ This was the days before this town had any wildlife carers.
I've had friendships with many wild animals over the years. Cockatoos, lorikeets, bush turkeys, kookaburras, magpies, mudlarks, doves, willy-wagtails, green tree-frogs, turtles and occasionally blue-tongue lizards. All of them wild. A lot of people have no idea of the relationships you can develop with animals and they have good and bad days just like us. They enrich our lives as we do theirs (if you care to).
Bush chooks, Toilet frogs & bin chickens Aussie as heck. In some Indigenous mobs folklore, the willy-wagtails are devious birds, that lead children into temptation. They were seen as a bad omens. Growing up our toilet was downstair under the house, with no light. You have to flush the toilet first to see if there were any green tree frogs in the bowl. Or you would sit down to do your business & you'd have a frog kiss you butt, & freak you out.
It's a Aussie thing, well it is for me to have the love hate relationship with the magpies. I love the warble of the magpie. It's a alarm clock, it's home!
Magpies are as smart as ravens. They can solve puzzles and have good memories. I love their song. I always chat year round to the maggies in the nearby tree when I go to get my mail and they have never swooped me.
Scientists now think they are smarter (people tend to think they are corvids like ravens, but they are not, in fact). In 2022 it was discovered that they are one of only two bird species in the world to exhibit persistent altruistic behaviour towards other individuals.
As others have said, the magpies swoop in the breeding season because they think people are going to hurt their babies. They're not hateful creatures, just protective of their young. 🇦🇺🦘
Maggies are very smart birds. They will come visit everyday if you feed them. I love the sounds they make. When I was a child, a lot of children would throw rocks and stuff at them. And why they have that temperament.
We have magpies who come back and nest in the same tree every year in my yard. They keep the other birds away and only let the kookaburras in. Same routine for 30 years this year. Ryan, the adults are very white on their backs, last years young still have some grey on their backs. None of us have ever been swooped.
Magpies are super smart. Not only do they recognise you, they pass the knowledge of you being "good" or "bad" onto other birds. I had a fast start to wildlife care. I called the rescue organisation with a juvenile magpie that was lost. They were so busy and he wasn't injured so they asked if I could feed him and give him a place to sleep til he worked out flying. He and his family still use the same nesting hollow every year, but since raising that bird I have never once been swooped by them in mating season. Others in care have the most incredible and amusing behaviours. Once you spend time with them you realise just how incredible they are
They're beautiful birds. Quite friendly other than during the mating season. I used to feed magpie grapes from my verandah. Eventually, the maggie would come into the kitchen and get its own grapes. For many years later, every season, the magpie would return and, as it grew, would bring its family with them.
We have a local family of Magpies however they've laid low since crows set up a nest in a big tree across the road. No shortage of birds here, Rainbow lorikeets, Rosellas, Noisy Miner, pigeons, etc.
I know magpies are intelligent and inquisitive, but I've never seen them rolling around on the grass playing with each other like that. That's really cool.
Hey Ryan...I used to have a fibre doormat. A magpie used to come every year to pluck fibres from it (presumably for a nest)...I would sit on my porch and watch it....I started chatting. In English haha...It would warble everytime I spoke! Alas, I changed my mat to a non fibre one and I've not seen it since😢
Yeah neighbours often fail to have the same fascination with seeing their clothes pulled off the line. A friend had a hand-raised pet cockatoo they eventually let out of the cage during the day and it did pull neighbours’ clothes off the lines, to their annoyance.
Sulphur-crested cockatoo are a different breed all together. They are an Aussie Icon, however they are too clever for their own good, cheeky Bastards of birds. We do have a health respect for animals.
I have one that visits me a few times daily on my balcony rail. She eats from my hand for a while then fills her mouth & feeds her baby. She brings me gifts too, mostly spiders & dumps them in front of me.
Magpies are wonderful birds. I've had little black and white friends I fed every day. They learn quickly. If you feed them, they don't swoop you in nesting season. They recall people's faces. True story. They're corvids, same family as crows. They're smart.
They're not actually Corvids, they're Artamids, a different species. The first Europeans who settled here called them magpies because they appeared similar to the birds back home. But they're not really related. They're part of the Artamidae family, which also includes the butcherbirds, currawongs and woodswallows.
@@DanDownunda8888 Interesting. I'm no ornithologist. I've read more than one internet blah blah that magpies are members of the corvids club but maybe it's a common misconception.
I was told that the reason why they go for people on bikes is because they can’t recognise you as well. And if you tease them they will remember and go for you. Same thing if you make friends. I have a little one who brings her babies to me. They’re so sweet and smart and I love their warble. Actually I have at least three friends who have bonded with their local magpies and they visit everyday. It’s pretty cool.
Same here, though it’s all my family & everyone I’ve ever known has had a Maggie friend at least once in their life. Obviously never as pets, just friends that visited basically daily
We have so many magpies out the front of our house. Don’t hurt us, (they recognise regular people in their area)come right to the front door, sing away. We always put out water for them in the hot weather too. Love them. 🥰🥰
I don't know that we Aussies are so special, but I think we expect a lot of each other. It's a privilege to live here, and most of us want to give back if we have the capacity. Obviously, there are Aussies who disappoint us and drag us down, but we can rise above them. Interestingly, the magpies seem ready to trust us too, given the chance.
We have Magpies, Currawongs, Kookaburra's, Apostles and many other native birds that regularly visit our place as we have bird baths and seed out for them always and we very often see the young of the birds come back when they have young so we get generations of the same bird families visiting us. Some of them will even hand feed sometimes. I just love waking up every day to their beautiful and different sounds.
My wife was a native animal carer in the early 90s. We cared & released lots of marsupials, birds & reptiles. A year or so after ending the caring, I was talking to my neighbour when I felt an incredible scratching on my head. My neighbour said that I had a magpie on my head. One had returned, wanting the good times to return bc it’s tough out there
We had a magpie family return to our backyard year after year having their babies and teaching them to fly. One magpie had a missing foot and would hop across the yard. They were very tame.
The adults are darker than the juveniles, the juveniles are a dark gray. The difference between males and females is females have gray in the white at the back of their necks. Maggie’s are one of the few birds that have facial recognition they also have the most complex song in the bird world.
We have 3 different magpie groups that live on our 5 acre rural property, they have never attack us. They always bring their young in to meet us each season. We admire them and sometimes feed them some seed but do not try to get too close to them, they often follow us around the yard. It is illegal to have any wild life as pets unless you have a permit to be a carer in Australia 😊
We had a small farm with a patch of scrub on the boundary. A family of magpies turned up and we began feeding them small amounts of kangaroo meat. They didn't become dependent on our feeding them, but became very friendly They would sit on our head, arms or shoulders, and eat from our hands. We never had any of then swoop on us, even during the breeding season.
I was down near the harbour today and there were all these beautiful trees umbrellaing the area. Suddenly all these magpies started swooping on me. It is obviously nesting season !!!
There so awesome I used to whistle them up at the caravan park,they would jump on my golf buggie and ride around with me while I worked,tourists loved it
I have about five magpies coming to my back door and they are friendly as their family has grown around us. The ones that attack people are only protecting their nests in breeding season. lol
Hi Ryan & thanks for your often amusing videos. Magpies are great birds with interesting personalities & beautiful call. They only attack people going near where they happen to be nesting in breeding season. They are quite curious birds & so can be very tame in approaching people. You have to be careful sometimes in some places as they think they can run inside your house if the doors open! As I said, very curious birds.
G'day Ryan, behind our farm house is a row of tall gum trees and a family of Magpies and for Generations they have lived with our family year in year out, the farm would be nothing without them, cheers mate, Neil 🤠.
Generally, Magpies will only swoop someone in their territory they don't recognise. Magpies can recognise up to 100 people who live in their territory.
I am 55 and an Aussie. I have never been swooped by a Magpie. I have always found them to be beautiful and friendly birds. Never to the extent of the video above though.
I love magpies and their beautiful song. They never swoop you if they know you. Beautiful bird. boys are crisp black and white. Girls are brownish grey
Every Aussie I know has a soft spot for Maggies. There's over 200 of them in my street, and it looks like a scene out of the movie The Birds, with them all perched on fences, roofs, electricity wires, trees, and all over the ground. I almost trip over them at times, and they hit me in the head with their wings when they fly too close to me. They are not aggressive, in fact I feel safe with them, like they are protectors. They actually are protective of humans they care about and trust. We love them. We love all our animals, which made the fires in 2019 even more devastating when we lost around a billion animals of all types. Growing up in the 70's and 80's I used to spend all my time outdoors and play in the Bush, where I would catch spiders, i.e. Trapdoor spiders, Wolf spiders, Huntsmans, and Redbacks, and I'd also encounter arguably the worlds deadliest spider, the Sydney Funnel-web, I also used to catch snakes and lizards as well. Us Aussies traditionally had a close connection to our wildlife, BUT the younger generations don't seem to care about that sort of thing now. Aussies aren't connected to the land/nature like they used to be unfortunately. Technology and pop culture, and being woke, matters more.
It's true about making friends of them. I have done so for decades [I feed them] in different locations and have never been attacked. This must mean they can recognize individual humans.
Only a day ago, the amazing Dr Jones did very funny short piece on Australian Magpies. Can be viewed on the ABC Science TH-cam channel. Magpies get a bad rap for their swooping but it turns out it is only a small percentage of males and only for a few weeks a year. Aside from that nasty habit, they are incredibly cool birds.
Yeah I used to get magpies sitting on my clothesline, I threw a bit of food scraps out on the lawn one day and the bird looked at it, started singing, and yep, more turned up, they became regulars at my place.
Magpies are completely wonderful. They have the prettiest, most melodious voices. I love them to bits. They have good memories as well. If you are not aggressive towards them and they see that you're not a threat, they won't swoop you. They will remember you. They only do that in breeding season anyway. It's a defense mechanism. Check out Maggie and Molly. A unique friendship between a dog and a wild magpie.
I occasionally go to my parents property out in the country in west Australia. Whenever I was house sitting for my parents there was always a magpie that flew up and joined me while I was eating breakfast outside. I'd feed them bits and pieces of my breakfast and talk to them. Over the course of a few months I had whole flock of magpies joining me for my breakfast lunch and dinner, landing on my shoulders, on my lap, walking around on the table. But never being rude, they wouldn't try to snatch anything, they'd wait their turn and I'd give them all a little something to eat. One day I went outside and they went crazy, flocked around me, trilling and yelling at me as another group of them where divebombing into the grass near me. Turns out they had spotted a deadly snake and were trying to get rid of it, and were shouting at me to get away. Crazy intelligence.
Magpies only swoop during breeding season to protect their young. The rest of the year they are very friendly or just ignore you. I have always made friends with my local magpies so I never get swooped. They love it if you offer them a little bit of meat to eat. I started by feeding some kookaburras many years ago and it wasn’t long before the local magpies started to show up at feeding time. They know me well and eat right out of my hand. I love the sound of the magpies warble. 😊😊
i have the same thing in my yard, except it's magpies, kookaburras, butcher birds, currawongs, lorikeets, black ducks, teal ducks, galahs, willy wag tails, black cockatoos, crested pigeons, bar shouldered doves, blue faced honey eaters and fairy wrens.
There's a magpie family that nests in a large tree outside the front of my place. It's that time of year here now when the young start leaving the nest to learn how to forage. Three days ago, mama maggie brought the new family addition to my door to meet me. In a couple of weeks or so, baby will be left with me for periods of time while its parents take a break. Guess I am a trusted babysitter because this is the routine for them....and I love it!
I fed three generations of them from my balcony as kid into my early 20’s.they were as tame as this. They’re descendants still live in the valley I grew up in them. I miss them…
Magpies are super smart and amazing birds! I love them! They know me and I can get 30 of them into my back yard…..but don’t want to feed them the bread that attracts them because I know it is so bad for them. I don’t want to hurt them, so as much as I want them in my garden. This woman has more than just food at her disposal…I wish I had the time to be more like her. :-) Re their frightful ‘swooping’….that is real too, but it is a natural reaction for them…it happens when they have a nest with babies…..they swoop to,keep ‘predators’ away. It is said that about 11% of them will do this….but not to people they ‘know’….so I am safe!
Maggie's are beautiful birds. I always put a big bowl of water out for them in summer. They come knock on the door when they want to play. They don't swoop you if they know your not a threat to the, or the babies.
What a coincidence, I just watched an Australian movie called Penguin - a true story about an Australian family who took care of an orphaned magpie. Highly recommend it if you're interested. You'll hear (words being shortened left right and centre) and see how this family takes care of Peng and vice versa. Starring Naomi Watts.
My Grandmother had a "pet" magpie. She took it in and nursed it back to health, and it came back every day, had the run of the house, and it knew and related to the entire family. It was completely free to come and go.
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I'd say the majority of Aussies love our magpies. During the swooping season they're just protecting their hatchlings and any parent can relate to that. For the rest of the year they are a delight to have around.
They only swoop if they think you're a threat to them and their hatchlings. If they know you and are used to having you around then they'll never swoop on you for you're not perceived as a threat. I have a family of Magpies and they've never swooped on me because they know me. When the young ones are learning to feed for themselves they never give the parents a moments peace for they constantly pester them for food. I watch the young ones trying to dig grubs out of the ground without much success and they go back to pestering a parent who only gives them a morsel of food to shut them up for a second or two.
Magpies won the award for the most beautiful bird call in Australia. Voted all over Australia. They are fantastically smart birds and I absolutely love them. Love waking up to their songs. 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺♥️♥️♥️
Not surprised, they are so shiny, compact and elegant! Me too! 👍
I do love the sound of a bell bird though 😊 but absolutely love the warble of the Maggie 👍🇦🇺
Hi Ryan can you please stop saying*happy Arvo" hi or good day is more appropriate 🙏
I would have voted the: currawong🩵, which is part of the magpie family. They sound absolutely heavenly. Every time I hear one, as we have a tonne of trees in the yard and the neighbours, it’s always breathtaking. But also hearing the kookaburra 🥰.
@@ColourCrazy They are another one of my favourites, used to be lots of them at the Grampians Victoria 😊👍
I found an injured magpie in the backyard, wrapped it in a towel and took it to the vet. They asked where I found it, so weeks later the vet people brought him back to release him in the same place, so he could find his way home. All at no cost.
In Australia all Vets must take in and either care for or put down injured native wildlife free of charge.
When my mother was ill Magpies started visiting her and their babies too, they sang when they arrived so she would bring food out! Her ginger cat learned magpie speak too and always sat chatting away like they were his friends! When she eventually went to live in a nursing home they slowly left! 🤗
Our neighbour always feeds the magpies, their babies and all the other birds like parrots etc. Consequently we have a lot of birds in our street all year round. We've never once been swooped by a magpie while gardening or walking the dogs. All the birds are super friendly around here 😊
We have a family of magpies visit our yard every year for the last at least 20 years. They sing to you, follow you around etc. They can be vicious. When it is time for the next year's breeding they chase off their young and they really get nasty, pecking and attacking them until they leave the parents territory. It's sad when the babies get chased off as you have bonded with the whole magpie family.
We have a family of Kookaburras, King Parrots, Cockatoos, Lorikeets, Rosellas that visit our yard. They love to hang off the bottle brush tree sucking nectar etc or pecking at pine cones etc.
I'm biased but I think Australia has some of the prettiest birds around and they are so entertaining.
Ryan should you feed them they remember you there so smart. My dear mother would feed them they would turn up peeping through her windows at the front door, waiting to be fed, . You should try and come out here with your family and check it all out, I’m sure you’d blown away. 😊😊😊
New Zealand has a few nice birds but I love Aussie birds and especially Magpies. I love hearing them from the tall Pines in the morning and watching their antics.
It's brutal isn't it. Magpie parents are so protective, until they're not. Having babies every year for the rest of your life would break you down 🤭
Ryan...look up Molly and Peggy. Molly is a male magpie (strange name). He was rescued as a baby after a big storm on the Gold Coast, Queensland. Peggy is a staffordshire terrier. They have become world famous. The magpie chooses to live with the family although it can fly free at any time.
I wonder if this is the lady that reported them
@@bblake5116 Um no, I live in Victoria....I would only ever report animal abuse. I know Molly is safe and happy.
@@bblake5116 Why would she do that?
Molly was probably named after Molly Meldrum
Didn't the bird and dog get separated?
Ryan, please(!!) look beyond the hype about magpie aggression. Male magpies swoop during breeding season to protect their nestlings. Only males, only a few weeks per year, and, despite the media hysteria, only a small percentage of those swoop aggressively. They are highly intelligent. They live over 20 years, recognise individual humans in their territory, and respond to those individuals according to how the humans act toward them.
This is true. I like birds and animals in general, so I've always noticed and interacted kindly with local magpies. Whistle a tune and make a few clicks every time you see one, so it looks you in the eye. Never give them grief, and they will never give you any. I have never been swooped by a magpie in all my life. Noisy miners on the other hand.... every bloody spring.
All swoops are aggressive.
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I feed the magpies everyday however when I leave my home the bastards swoop until I’m back on the block, it doesn’t bother me I tell them no more food, they give me the side eye walking into the kitchen to be fed, one of them sits on my dogs back as he walks around the back yard
They don't like you 😂 8:59 @dianeoriander8276
My daughter saw a magpie in her yard, so she went in and got a few mealworms (she has a lizard that eats the mealworms) and put them on her porch for it. Now it comes to her house every day begging for food. She named the magpie Patches, and it now even responds to that name. It's become so used to her that it sits on her hand and will let her stroke it. Patches has bought friends with him at times, but they aren't as trusting as Patches. It's amazing to watch, but it doesn't surprise me, because my daughter has always loved all animals, and I think they sense that.
She is a wonderful soul. And she has her own channel and Insta page. She has a very special bond with these birds. They don't attack people. They defend their nests at mating time though. And, if you befriend your local magpies, they won't attack you when they have babies. They will actually bring their fledglings to meet you if they trust you. And, they remember people. They KNOW you. They remember good and bad people and will attack people who have tried to harm them in the past. They will also greet you if you were a good friend, and they see you months later. They are unique birds.
It's such a compliment when they arrive and belt out their song for you. I'll never complain about waking up to their voices.
Those were southern magpies probably in Victoria. Magpies and kookaburras are the most people friendly birds in Australia. Magpies spend much of their life on the ground and will let humans get very close before walking rather than flying away. If you feed and befriend them they will not attack you. I have had them often just walk into the house looking for me to feed them just like a cat or dog. Kookaburras are equally as friendly to people but spend most of their time in trees or perched on something like a patio rail.
I've had magpies bring me gifts. They are not pidgeons.
I though Vic too. I have made friends with the wattle birds who own my back yard bird bath, I was actually surprised to read they have a reputation for being aggressive. They're all Aussie legends, we're so so lucky here.
Birds do remember. I’ve returned the call of king parrots round my neighbourhood for years and now often when I walk around my suburb they call when they see me.
I've never had king parrots before but a local crew lives my acorns out the front so we have 10+ visit. They are so chilled, even more so since I've been chatting to them.
With their fancy red pants. Such pretty faces. The wattle birds in my hood are the same, they even know my car & escort me in when I'm in home territory 🥰
Magpies are my favs. I rescued a magpie from a cat when I was a kid. The magpie lived with us for a few years (couldn’t fly) and learnt to talk. Since then, I’ve loved magpies. I have a family that lives near me and visits regularly., Never been swooped in my life. I think word has gotten around that I’m ok.
I think birds can access collective memory of all their species in a region. Like the research the "100th Monkey" touches on. It would be a smart survival mode, to know which humans, or type of humans, are safer than others. Perhaps some birds are also better at adapting to human habitation too. Very observant of human behaviour. But I tend to think it's not just observational, but somehow knowledge passed on down the generations...
They are gorgeous and love the sound they make.
Magpies are not aggressive. I have them sitting on my lap and hand feed them.
Magpies are charming and so bright, they aren't aggressive once they get to know you. I have a family visit my back yard. I talk to them all and they get comfortable.
They are such smart birds, I’ve been lucky enough to have some visit
We have a magpie family that we have been feeding for 3 years. They come everyday with their new babies and sit on the fence to let us know they are there and sing until we bring the food out then they get stuck into the food. They are so cute. We've never been attacked by any of our local Maggie's.
Animals are smarter than we give them credit for. I have a 'collection' of wild birds who visit and talk to me. They all have their own personalities and names. Magpies, Butcherbirds, Rainbow Lorikeets, Crested Pigeons, Blue-faced Honeyeaters, Noisy Miners, Crows...they all come when called and also follow me around. Such curious creatures.
Magpies also have a good sense of people as well. My daughter went to a school surrounded by a park that hosted many magpies. They never attacked me or her, but they would swoop her dad. If she was cranky with him, she would walk as slow as she could through the magpies, and they would swoop him but never her. Very funny to watch.
Easiest way to tell a male or female magpie is the backs of males necks are pure white, while the females are more grey
your right but juveniles are not easy
only on the southern race.
@@Bocca-1 Ha yes, I thought all the babies were girls for a long time. I didn't notice their eyes also change from black to red as the mature.
So true, they do recognise people. I’d sit in the garden and magpies were around. Then they had babies, they can get very protective of their young, but because they’d see me each season, it was wonderful watching mum feeding them, then bubs squawking to be fed and she refused as she wanted them to find their own food. Yes they remembered me and trusted me as I’d just sit quietly and watch them each season - and then I moved. I still miss them.
Maggie's are lovely birds. We have three generations of a Maggie family that visit us most days. We love them dearly and they're a part of everyone's lives. 🐦⬛
Magpies are such beautiful birds, their call is lovely and so typically Australian…. They are very intelligent and wonderful to have around.
I absolutely love the Magpies call. It's so unique and just says Australia for me. We generally love animals because we have some of the most beautiful and unique animals in the world, and most of us appreciate that. Maggies are no exception. They are a beautiful and intelligent bird.
I mow lawns and look after other people's gardens, and I have magpies around me looking for worms and other things to eat. When magpies get to know you and know you will do them no harm they just get on with their life and leave you alone.
Our water metre out the front had a leak so I dug a whole around it, whilst digging a magpie landed right next to me and was happily eating worms out of my hand :)
I think mowing is a good way to get to know the birds. They know when you're going to do it and hang around while you're at it. Even moreso now that I have a battery mower.
A friend raised a magpie from a baby...It could impersonate every family member..including the 3 dogs...
Maggie lived for years...until one day she started building a nest....days later she put all her toys into this giant nest...curled up into it herself ..and gently passed away...
She was a huge character....❤❤❤❤
This was the days before this town had any wildlife carers.
What a brilliant story. Thanks for sharing ❤
‘My’ magpie family are great fun.
My nan has had several Magpie families/free pets over the years and many of them talk amazingly.
I've had friendships with many wild animals over the years. Cockatoos, lorikeets, bush turkeys, kookaburras, magpies, mudlarks, doves, willy-wagtails, green tree-frogs, turtles and occasionally blue-tongue lizards. All of them wild. A lot of people have no idea of the relationships you can develop with animals and they have good and bad days just like us. They enrich our lives as we do theirs (if you care to).
Bush chooks, Toilet frogs & bin chickens Aussie as heck. In some Indigenous mobs folklore, the willy-wagtails are devious birds, that lead children into temptation. They were seen as a bad omens. Growing up our toilet was downstair under the house, with no light. You have to flush the toilet first to see if there were any green tree frogs in the bowl. Or you would sit down to do your business & you'd have a frog kiss you butt, & freak you out.
Maggie's are unreal man they are friendly and smart
It's a Aussie thing, well it is for me to have the love hate relationship with the magpies. I love the warble of the magpie. It's a alarm clock, it's home!
Magpies are as smart as ravens. They can solve puzzles and have good memories. I love their song. I always chat year round to the maggies in the nearby tree when I go to get my mail and they have never swooped me.
Scientists now think they are smarter (people tend to think they are corvids like ravens, but they are not, in fact). In 2022 it was discovered that they are one of only two bird species in the world to exhibit persistent altruistic behaviour towards other individuals.
Magpies are very smart bird i have had ones that knock on my door just for company they just want to play
As others have said, the magpies swoop in the breeding season because they think people are going to hurt their babies. They're not hateful creatures, just protective of their young. 🇦🇺🦘
Maggies are very smart birds. They will come visit everyday if you feed them. I love the sounds they make. When I was a child, a lot of children would throw rocks and stuff at them. And why they have that temperament.
We have magpies who come back and nest in the same tree every year in my yard. They keep the other birds away and only let the kookaburras in. Same routine for 30 years this year. Ryan, the adults are very white on their backs, last years young still have some grey on their backs. None of us have ever been swooped.
Magpies are super smart. Not only do they recognise you, they pass the knowledge of you being "good" or "bad" onto other birds. I had a fast start to wildlife care. I called the rescue organisation with a juvenile magpie that was lost. They were so busy and he wasn't injured so they asked if I could feed him and give him a place to sleep til he worked out flying. He and his family still use the same nesting hollow every year, but since raising that bird I have never once been swooped by them in mating season. Others in care have the most incredible and amusing behaviours. Once you spend time with them you realise just how incredible they are
They're beautiful birds. Quite friendly other than during the mating season. I used to feed magpie grapes from my verandah. Eventually, the maggie would come into the kitchen and get its own grapes. For many years later, every season, the magpie would return and, as it grew, would bring its family with them.
We have a local family of Magpies however they've laid low since crows set up a nest in a big tree across the road. No shortage of birds here, Rainbow lorikeets, Rosellas, Noisy Miner, pigeons, etc.
I know magpies are intelligent and inquisitive, but I've never seen them rolling around on the grass playing with each other like that. That's really cool.
Hey Ryan...I used to have a fibre doormat. A magpie used to come every year to pluck fibres from it (presumably for a nest)...I would sit on my porch and watch it....I started chatting. In English haha...It would warble everytime I spoke! Alas, I changed my mat to a non fibre one and I've not seen it since😢
Yeah neighbours often fail to have the same fascination with seeing their clothes pulled off the line. A friend had a hand-raised pet cockatoo they eventually let out of the cage during the day and it did pull neighbours’ clothes off the lines, to their annoyance.
Sulphur-crested cockatoo are a different breed all together. They are an Aussie Icon, however they are too clever for their own good, cheeky Bastards of birds. We do have a health respect for animals.
My favourite bird call is the magpie. I absolutely love them. Their singing is so therapeutic for me. ❤
Love this fellow Aussie ❤️ Bless her 🙏
I have one that visits me a few times daily on my balcony rail.
She eats from my hand for a while then fills her mouth & feeds her baby.
She brings me gifts too, mostly spiders & dumps them in front of me.
Magpies are wonderful birds. I've had little black and white friends I fed every day. They learn quickly. If you feed them, they don't swoop you in nesting season. They recall people's faces. True story. They're corvids, same family as crows. They're smart.
They're not actually Corvids, they're Artamids, a different species. The first Europeans who settled here called them magpies because they appeared similar to the birds back home. But they're not really related. They're part of the Artamidae family, which also includes the butcherbirds, currawongs and woodswallows.
@@DanDownunda8888 Interesting. I'm no ornithologist. I've read more than one internet blah blah that magpies are members of the corvids club but maybe it's a common misconception.
@@DanDownunda8888 I think they branched off.
Hi from Australia, Ryan. I followed her page for quite a while...simply delightful!
Watching those magpies following her around reminds me of all the Disney Princesses where the wild animals chase after their favorite princess.
I have been scalped once by nesting magpies but had many who introduced their babies year after year. They are so loving and very loyal.
I was told that the reason why they go for people on bikes is because they can’t recognise you as well. And if you tease them they will remember and go for you. Same thing if you make friends. I have a little one who brings her babies to me. They’re so sweet and smart and I love their warble. Actually I have at least three friends who have bonded with their local magpies and they visit everyday. It’s pretty cool.
Same here, though it’s all my family & everyone I’ve ever known has had a Maggie friend at least once in their life. Obviously never as pets, just friends that visited basically daily
We have so many magpies out the front of our house. Don’t hurt us, (they recognise regular people in their area)come right to the front door, sing away. We always put out water for them in the hot weather too.
Love them. 🥰🥰
I don't know that we Aussies are so special, but I think we expect a lot of each other. It's a privilege to live here, and most of us want to give back if we have the capacity. Obviously, there are Aussies who disappoint us and drag us down, but we can rise above them. Interestingly, the magpies seem ready to trust us too, given the chance.
We have Magpies, Currawongs, Kookaburra's, Apostles and many other native birds that regularly visit our place as we have bird baths and seed out for them always and we very often see the young of the birds come back when they have young so we get generations of the same bird families visiting us. Some of them will even hand feed sometimes. I just love waking up every day to their beautiful and different sounds.
We have them here in our yard. They are my favourite birds. I love them. If you are kind to them they remember your face. I love them.
I LOVE magpies .. they're awesome! I could watch and listen to them ALL day 😁💙
My wife was a native animal carer in the early 90s. We cared & released lots of marsupials, birds & reptiles. A year or so after ending the caring, I was talking to my neighbour when I felt an incredible scratching on my head. My neighbour said that I had a magpie on my head. One had returned, wanting the good times to return bc it’s tough out there
We had a magpie family return to our backyard year after year having their babies and teaching them to fly. One magpie had a missing foot and would hop across the yard. They were very tame.
The adults are darker than the juveniles, the juveniles are a dark gray. The difference between males and females is females have gray in the white at the back of their necks. Maggie’s are one of the few birds that have facial recognition they also have the most complex song in the bird world.
I thought the complex song was butcherbirds.
Maggie’s are chill with me
Magpies visiting and talking to us kept me sane during lockdowns in Melbourne.
We have 3 different magpie groups that live on our 5 acre rural property, they have never attack us. They always bring their young in to meet us each season. We admire them and sometimes feed them some seed but do not try to get too close to them, they often follow us around the yard. It is illegal to have any wild life as pets unless you have a permit to be a carer in Australia 😊
Fortunately, there is no law preventing magpies from adopting you as their pet. ;)
@@paulwhillas6494 😂😂😂💯
I have wild Maggie's coming in the shed when I am working on my old car and sing and sit on the end of the work bench 🙃
🖤🤍🖤🤍
What’s the best sound in the world? A magpies song. ❤
We had a small farm with a patch of scrub on the boundary. A family of magpies turned up and we began feeding them small amounts of kangaroo meat. They didn't become dependent on our feeding them, but became very friendly They would sit on our head, arms or shoulders, and eat from our hands. We never had any of then swoop on us, even during the breeding season.
I was down near the harbour today and there were all these beautiful trees umbrellaing the area. Suddenly all these magpies started swooping on me. It is obviously nesting season !!!
There so awesome I used to whistle them up at the caravan park,they would jump on my golf buggie and ride around with me while I worked,tourists loved it
I have about five magpies coming to my back door and they are friendly as their family has grown around us. The ones that attack people are only protecting their nests in breeding season. lol
Hi Ryan & thanks for your often amusing videos.
Magpies are great birds with interesting personalities & beautiful call. They only attack people going near where they happen to be nesting in breeding season. They are quite curious birds & so can be very tame in approaching people. You have to be careful sometimes in some places as they think they can run inside your house if the doors open! As I said, very curious birds.
G'day Ryan, behind our farm house is a row of tall gum trees and a family of Magpies and for Generations they have lived with our family year in year out, the farm would be nothing without them, cheers mate, Neil 🤠.
Magpies are like 7-year-old children they're very very smart 🤓
Generally, Magpies will only swoop someone in their territory they don't recognise. Magpies can recognise up to 100 people who live in their territory.
I am 55 and an Aussie. I have never been swooped by a Magpie. I have always found them to be beautiful and friendly birds. Never to the extent of the video above though.
I love magpies and their beautiful song. They never swoop you if they know you. Beautiful bird. boys are crisp black and white. Girls are brownish grey
Every Aussie I know has a soft spot for Maggies. There's over 200 of them in my street, and it looks like a scene out of the movie The Birds, with them all perched on fences, roofs, electricity wires, trees, and all over the ground. I almost trip over them at times, and they hit me in the head with their wings when they fly too close to me. They are not aggressive, in fact I feel safe with them, like they are protectors. They actually are protective of humans they care about and trust. We love them. We love all our animals, which made the fires in 2019 even more devastating when we lost around a billion animals of all types. Growing up in the 70's and 80's I used to spend all my time outdoors and play in the Bush, where I would catch spiders, i.e. Trapdoor spiders, Wolf spiders, Huntsmans, and Redbacks, and I'd also encounter arguably the worlds deadliest spider, the Sydney Funnel-web, I also used to catch snakes and lizards as well. Us Aussies traditionally had a close connection to our wildlife, BUT the younger generations don't seem to care about that sort of thing now. Aussies aren't connected to the land/nature like they used to be unfortunately. Technology and pop culture, and being woke, matters more.
My mum used to feed a magpie every year, and each year the magpie would bring her baby chicks to meet mum.
We got our shirts. Thank you, they are great.
Yep our pegs for the clothes line next level, design for Australian conditions and. When your dog or puppy tries to go for the 🧦
Why do the damn dogs only go for socks nothing else
It's true about making friends of them. I have done so for decades [I feed them] in different locations and have never been attacked. This must mean they can recognize individual humans.
Thanks Ryan.I love Magpies.They do recognise you.
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Only a day ago, the amazing Dr Jones did very funny short piece on Australian Magpies. Can be viewed on the ABC Science TH-cam channel. Magpies get a bad rap for their swooping but it turns out it is only a small percentage of males and only for a few weeks a year. Aside from that nasty habit, they are incredibly cool birds.
Yeah I used to get magpies sitting on my clothesline, I threw a bit of food scraps out on the lawn one day and the bird looked at it, started singing, and yep, more turned up, they became regulars at my place.
Magpies are completely wonderful. They have the prettiest, most melodious voices. I love them to bits. They have good memories as well. If you are not aggressive towards them and they see that you're not a threat, they won't swoop you. They will remember you. They only do that in breeding season anyway. It's a defense mechanism. Check out Maggie and Molly. A unique friendship between a dog and a wild magpie.
I occasionally go to my parents property out in the country in west Australia. Whenever I was house sitting for my parents there was always a magpie that flew up and joined me while I was eating breakfast outside. I'd feed them bits and pieces of my breakfast and talk to them.
Over the course of a few months I had whole flock of magpies joining me for my breakfast lunch and dinner, landing on my shoulders, on my lap, walking around on the table. But never being rude, they wouldn't try to snatch anything, they'd wait their turn and I'd give them all a little something to eat.
One day I went outside and they went crazy, flocked around me, trilling and yelling at me as another group of them where divebombing into the grass near me.
Turns out they had spotted a deadly snake and were trying to get rid of it, and were shouting at me to get away. Crazy intelligence.
Top birds Ryan, you stuff with them ,you'll get a lesson in manners
😂😂😂True
we had a family of magpies visit us near everytime we had a barbecue they were so much fun they are so smart
Magpies only swoop during breeding season to protect their young. The rest of the year they are very friendly or just ignore you. I have always made friends with my local magpies so I never get swooped. They love it if you offer them a little bit of meat to eat. I started by feeding some kookaburras many years ago and it wasn’t long before the local magpies started to show up at feeding time. They know me well and eat right out of my hand. I love the sound of the magpies warble. 😊😊
i have the same thing in my yard, except it's magpies, kookaburras, butcher birds, currawongs, lorikeets, black ducks, teal ducks, galahs, willy wag tails, black cockatoos, crested pigeons, bar shouldered doves, blue faced honey eaters and fairy wrens.
There's a magpie family that nests in a large tree outside the front of my place. It's that time of year here now when the young start leaving the nest to learn how to forage. Three days ago, mama maggie brought the new family addition to my door to meet me. In a couple of weeks or so, baby will be left with me for periods of time while its parents take a break. Guess I am a trusted babysitter because this is the routine for them....and I love it!
I fed three generations of them from my balcony as kid into my early 20’s.they were as tame as this. They’re descendants still live in the valley I grew up in them. I miss them…
love maggies 💜 they're smart and beautiful. never been swooped or seen anyone swooped.
Magpies are super smart and amazing birds! I love them! They know me and I can get 30 of them into my back yard…..but don’t want to feed them the bread that attracts them because I know it is so bad for them. I don’t want to hurt them, so as much as I want them in my garden.
This woman has more than just food at her disposal…I wish I had the time to be more like her. :-)
Re their frightful ‘swooping’….that is real too, but it is a natural reaction for them…it happens when they have a nest with babies…..they swoop to,keep ‘predators’ away. It is said that about 11% of them will do this….but not to people they ‘know’….so I am safe!
They just want to play with your skull. Well done Ryan, you understand Aussie bird culture.👍
Magpies are the best. I’ve never been swooped so that helps, but they’re friendly and have the nicest song/twitter ❤
Magpies can be so much fun. They bond to most people. They do zoomies
I do have to say I love a magpie's chaudle 🎶 reminds me of being on holiday as a kid.
Maggie's are beautiful birds. I always put a big bowl of water out for them in summer. They come knock on the door when they want to play. They don't swoop you if they know your not a threat to the, or the babies.
I bet Miss Magpie was her favourite character on Blinky Bill.
What a coincidence, I just watched an Australian movie called Penguin - a true story about an Australian family who took care of an orphaned magpie. Highly recommend it if you're interested. You'll hear (words being shortened left right and centre) and see how this family takes care of Peng and vice versa. Starring Naomi Watts.
I also saw that movie, a great flick. A definite must see for ppl who are not from here.
My Grandmother had a "pet" magpie. She took it in and nursed it back to health, and it came back every day, had the run of the house, and it knew and related to the entire family. It was completely free to come and go.