We got a stalker already n the comment ok she just had enough ,n said why the heart n does it say bren n Paul or just Paul on there so please dnt do that again
I watched a magpie rolling snail shells along my garden path , he was “ unscrewing “ the snail from its shell ! Later that day, I saw it teaching a young bird how to do it !
I love magpies! They have the cutest little waddle. When they see you coming they will waddle over to you and say hi. They are fearless and very inquisitive, more so than any other bird and very friendly once you get to know them.
Australian magpies are great to have around. I am an American that has been here for 32 years and have a small acreage with several magpies that I feed off and on during each week. The butcher bird and liar birds are also great to have around. You can find videos on all3 birds and get a good education. My place is sort of a bird sanctuary for cockatoos and many other beautiful parrots. They are all great as well as possums and little glider, various bat and many more. It's like a zoo of free animals here sometimes and always something new to be learned.
@@edwardbakadingo4261 I must say that yours is very good! I've had that profile pic for over 10 years. The photo was taken at Broulee on the NSW south coast. I love magpies. Peace
I was just feeding our magpie as I was watching yours…. He is of multi generational families that have been born and live in our area… they come and sit with us and even come in the house. When I walk in my area I call them and they follow me home.. for food of course.
@@AndrewFishman No Currawongs in our area. We have a butcher bird which sings his heart out full volume around four am on moonlit nights too. He's lovely but loud!
My housemate has been feeding the magpies for years and they’ve started bringing their young to meet us. I’ve had some of them eating from my hand and one has even ventured inside despite the dog. Beautiful birds ❤
5:58 that magpie mimicking the sound of a siren was when Australia was going through one of its worst bushfire seasons to date, back in early 2020. All the bird pretty much heard was the siren of several fire trucks going past.
Love the Magpies as I walk around my suburb they are always walking (they prefer to walk than fly) around and barely move out of the way they are truly confident funny birds with beautiful calls that you miss when out of Oz.
When I was living overseas what i truly missed about Australia was the birds, especially magpies singing as it’s so beautiful & instantly recognisable. They are very intelligent & if you give them an inch they’ll take a mile in regard to feeding them. As before you know it they’ll be in the kitchen waiting at the fridge door waiting for food…lol.
i was helping at a racetrack in wa last weekend and had a couple of juvie magpies nearby foraging. so i threw some pringles down for them, later watched them do the same beak wiping on the edge of a concrete safety wall. ppl feed magpies, usually mince for one reason. so in mating season they don't become swoop material. they recognise those who help them and treat them with respect.
Please tell people not to feed them mince. It can stick to their beaks in ways they aren't able to clear (not a food they evolved with) and cause harm, like rotting beaks :(
Awesome review of Magpies Tonia 🤩. I have personally been lucky not to have been swooped often, and where it occurred was not near my house. In all the places I have lived around Australia, the local magpie families recognise your face fairly quickly and unless you are an arsehole they will hang around the house, raise their young'uns and provide beautiful birdsong. Last house I was in had a tiny pond with a small pump/filter/fountain I installed, probably only 7 feet from my back sliding doors. In summer they would come down in two's or three's, sit on the rocks surrounding the pond and sing while one would dunk itself in the water get back out on a rock and shake the water off.
There are a number of birds that strop their beaks in Australia. Seeing off cockatoos from your territory is just good housekeeping. Magpies have a "just passing through" call used when passing through other territories. Humans can imitate this call and pass through feeding groups without causing too much alarm. I've also been faced with a group of magpies doing a perfect infantry skirmish line advance. Some moving forward while the others point their beaks at you.
Tonia, congratulations, you're officially an honorary Australian. You have tried Vegemite, love Tim Tam's, and now have performed an Aussie salute. Lol.
My son feeds them every day, and they bring him little presents, sometimes sparkly bits of paper or perfectly removed bits of plants, bulb and all. They are just beautiful!!
I love my magpies we have generations who have been with us for years. Love meeting their new babies and their babies babies. Never get swooped they come into the house and sing to be fed and waddle to me when they see me. Can feed them by hand. The most beautiful noises they make and they are very very friendly.
I have Maggies visit my home and they bring their bubbies in to meet us, which means they trust you. They are so sweet, but it's still bloody funny when you see one swooping someone XD Thank you for watching his vid, he's a classic. Love your cat and my daughter's cat hates us watching anything too XD
I had Magpie friends for a few years before I moved. I’d sit and watch them, they got used to me, look and me and get on with life. I saw the newborns on the grass with mum getting their food for them. Then mum would stop feeding them, babies squeaked and squawked, but mum wouldn’t find their food for them. Mum was never scared of me, I guess she learned to trust me. She was teaching them to find their own food. It was lovely to watch each season as new baby Magpies were born. I didn’t know they remembered faces that long. I might go back to the area and see if they remember me. That bought back lovely memories of watching my Maggies.
I once allied with some magpies against an invasive species in my area. We prevailed and now this creek is under their control, and they sometimes say hello.
they are so nice....i made friends with a bunch ...i'd call them all "charlie" ...and they would come right up to get my treats - one thing i observed was how they would be less aggressive than the maggies ....fully capable of standing up to them....but would often prefer not to unless provoked
Unlike Magpies the top curve of their beak lines up with the top curve of their heads, which is aesthetically very pleasing. Very streamlined. And not to mention beautiful colour contrast of their yellow eyes. Love their sound too:)
That English guy John Gould was spot on. Their song really is beautiful to listen to. Whenever I walk past my local Maggies, I'll whistle my generic bird whistle, (which is nothing like a Magpie song), and sometimes I'll get into a call and response 'conversation' with one. | can stand there for 15 minutes just having a chin-wag with my mate standing at my feet, looking up at me with unbroken eye-contact. It's very cathartic. I love the fact that they swoop... they're just looking out for their little ones. How is that not admirable?
Have a family in my backyard. When I'm in the garden they follow me around, playing. They know if I find a grub I'll throw it to them, so they will actually come right up and watch what I'm doing. Great Birds.
They love to perform, we used to have a family of them that would line up on our balcony and sing for some mince. Always very friendly, would just walk into our house and make themselves at home. When they trust you, they fully trust you. Cross one tho and that's a generation or 6 of them remembering you and attacking you.
As a 5 year old I had a chunk of hair and scalp ripped out by a swooping magpie as I walked to school - no doubt because other kids of similar age and appearance had been a threat to them in the past. However, despite that I adore and respect them. There’s nothing better than waking to the caroling song of local magpies.
@@lbd-po7cl Oh man that’s awful. I’m sorry that happened to you and so young. I’m glad you’re ok and that you still respect them tho. It’s like when you hear of people getting attacked by sharks but they still love and respect them. ❤️
I love the magpies in my yard singing. It is a beautiful sound. They particularly sing after the rain. I used to leave my back door open in one of the houses I lived in and the magpies would walk in and steal my dog's food on occasion. They were very friendly and chased away a snake from our yard at one point. They are wonderful birds. If they know you they will look after the yard and won't swoop at you. Too many people annoy them and that is why they can be aggressive at times.
I love my maggies........ Their song is so beautiful every morning And ALL of my cats over the past decades have always been terrified of them With good reason.... 😂😂
They are very smart and definitely remember people , I have some regularly nesting in our street and never swoop us or the neighbours kids playing there , due to regularly getting left over food and bread . A guy at our local park mimics their sound and they come to him landing on his arms to be hand fed . Many people befriend these wild birds and they can be taught to talk . Mind you as a kid I was flying downhill through a grassy park behind a friend on our BMX bikes , a Nesting Magpie flew down to swoop my friend and I yelled out to him to warn him , just before impact he hit the brakes and this Magpies beak stuck in the back of his neck until he came off and rolled down the hill to a stop . He had two bleeding puncture marks like out of a vampire movie whilst crying in distress , still laugh about it to this day 😁 What can you say , they have character ! 😁🇦🇺
@@ToniaElkins ,, when I was a kid, I used to cut through a bush area on the way to school. Every spring, I'd get swooped. I quickly learnt how to run flat out waving my school bag above my head.
Yep got a full hit to the head walking under some pine trees here in NZ too close to their nests I guess This was in the North Island of NZ Had no idea what it was as we didn't have any in the far south of the South Island😂
West coaster here. I live in a little Hamlet near Cape Naturalist. Around 50% of the region is open farmland and where I live the rest is native Bushland and my home backs on to it. I have 19 different bird species including water birds around me and the morning chorus is simply beautiful. But the magpies are a bit different. They are a beautiful sounding song bird and the sounds they make are just so very peaceful. I go to sleep listening to them and I wake up hearing them. But they do blurt out one note that dramatically raises your alertness levels and that the screech they let out when they attack, very unnerving because they are relentless. Next to the stunningly beautiful Major Mitchell parrot they are my favourite.
Some of the best pets I’ve had. They used to come into our kitchen for breakfast with my family when I lived in the country even our cat and dog excepted them in the house.
My cats used to lay in the sun outside the magpies used to sit on them and pluck their old fur and sing . They were used to them as they were only kittens when they started, never hurt them. Beautiful to watch. Adelaide South Australia 🌏🌏🦘🦘
As kids Way back in the late 70s Melbourne vic my brothers head was split open and bloody and needed stitches. Breeding season attack. We were playing at a local reserve park and magpie swooped.
My parents had magpies who always came and knocked on the door to be fed even coming in if the door was open, brought their babies as well. Found a baby Currawong and we could not get it back in the nest so made a place on our balcony and fed it. The Parents did come back and fed it as well but until it could fly they were happy to keep it on the cage we had on the balcony.
Half a dozen magpies were gathered around a small mound of earth near my house. I saw they were looking at one lying down, like it was dead. They seemed seemed to be wondering the same thing. One of them tested it with it's beak. It rolled down the mound and I thought it really was dead. But then it just casually got up and walked away (smugly? like "Fooled you all!)😄
Magpies spend a lot of time on the ground, walking around, looking for food. The first recognizable picture that my daughter drew, before she was 2, was a magpie.
On my way to work most mornings,The magpie in the tree across the road will fly over to or sneek up next to me and starts walking quickly beside until I give him a bit of my bacon egg roll the bread part before I walk in the door .
I had a little magpie friend that use to come and get under the hose everytime I watered the garden, it would brisle up it feathers like it was actually having a shower. It would also come and stand next to me while I weeded the garden like it was watching what I was doing. I think it died because it just stopped coming one day and I never seen it again. 😔
The magpie gang from my childhood home remember me still . I only visit 2-3 times a year now . Weirder they know my children are mine and they get a pass . They must communicate/teach each other
i babysit my magpie family's chicks every year , my pair currently have 3 new ones a few months old , my magpie family spend more time in my house than i do .
We’ve had them come into our yard for over 20 years..we feed them come in my laundry sqwark wanting a feed..they generally have 3 babies every year..mum dad and babies..they’re very smart..you should hear baby Maggie’s trying to sing like their parents..
Also, I used to work in North Sydney On the 11th floor of a building and, being an amateur ornithologist, I would always take not of the Maggies building their nest in breeding season. With a pair of binoculars, I would often check the nest from my 'birds-eye' view from the 11th floor. And one splendid day I actually witnessed the first of three eggs hatch. I felt like a proud father:)
I used to get swooped on my walk in the morning . I started bringing tidbits of food to give them. After a few walks they started coming to see me and not swoop. That was a few years ago and they still trust me
@ spent more than half my life working outside. I watched a magpie perched on a post next to a gate attack everyone who used the gate, it was the entrance to a facility. I walked through it without any problems, dunno why, i just get on with them. But they go for my brother all the time.
Magpie's are related to crows and ravens. Very intelligent. They remember people faces. If you feed them they befriend you, if youre mean to them for example throw rocks at them, they remember you and swoop down and attack when you least expect it. 😂
I have a magpie family who've lived on my property for 6 years. I have toys for them but I never feed them. Occasionally, I'll do some worm thumping for them. They love it; the worms, not so much. I tried to just let them be wild birds but they had other ideas. Every year they'll daily bring their babies right to me; I think it's a mixture of showing grandpa the kids, and showing the kids grandpa is okay to trust. The female in particular likes standing on my shoe (always the left one) and going for a ride as I walk around. I also have a very large group, maybe 15, of pied butcher birds. They have a quite simple call to let others know where they are. I whistle it and they'll come right over. Both types of birds are very social if they trust you. I think they see me as just a weird part of their families. There's something deeply satisfying in being trusted by all these birds. My neighbours (we're all on acreage) haven't been adopted so, very originally, they call me BirdMan. All I did was turn up and not alarm or hurt them. There's an interesting channel, The Magpie Whisperer, occasionally updated by the woman who has the most amazing affinity with her birds.
Magpies are familiar with Archimedes principle of displacement - drop some pebbles in a tube of water and the level rises so you can reach it for a drink. I don't understand the swooping though - I'm not much of a threat as I don't have wings. Maybe they met someone with a chainsaw one day? Or maybe they're being nice saying, "Move along, my babies poop here!"
Currawongs, butcher birds and magpies all have beautiful songs, particularly the latter two. Kookaburras also do that beak cleaning thing often. Every year, i go out of my way to feed the new chicks(only a few times), hence why i don't get swooped by my local magpies. One of life's little joys is watching a magpie run...it is so funny.
Males may do the hardcore swooping, but females can be pretty humourless when you're near their young chicks. But rather than getting close enough to peck you, females will sometimes make one pass, maybe a foot or two above your head, at high speed. They don't have to attack for you to know what this means. It's easier to become friends with males. Particularly the dominant male, in my experience.
Magpie song, called Caroling, is a beautiful song to hear. I always make friends with local magpies and they do recognize individuals. I have never been attacked by a magpie, I assume because they know me. Contrary to this video I find feeling them so they associate me as being a friend, just don't make them dependent on you because that's not doing them a favor. I have learned to whistle to them in a way that somewhat resembles their caroling; they don't react as if I am intruding on their territory. We often get a concert going between us.
Any animal that may be a threat should be researched and learned about. The best way to understand them and protect yourself is to learn about them. My wife is good with them.
G'day, if you liked the maggies mimicking the sounds around them, then check out our lyrebird. It can mimick just about anything they hear. However the maggie and currawong are my favs. I feed them at home and where i used to work. It does not take them long to get used to you and they will bring their young around when they fledge. Great job on your vids, keep it up 🤙🇦🇺
@@shaunlodge2648 I’ll definitely have to check out some more bird videos cuz I really enjoyed this one. I’m not a bird as a pet kinda person although I’ve had parakeets before, but I do think a lot of birds are beautiful and fascinating. The more I learn about magpies the more I’m loving them and respecting them ❤️
I feed a family of magpies that have a nest in a tree, two doors down. Their baby is the bravest. He regularly sings at the front door, waiting for a treat ❤
Give them water they need to teach their kids how to hunt insects not beg for processed food from people that can’t google the effects of feeding wildlife human food
I love magpies. I am friends with all my local ones. I wont feed them daily becauseci dont wan to make them dependent on me but i will put left overs out fpr them and if its chicken i will roll it in crushed insect exodkeletons so it doesnt get stuck in their beaks and cause problems. They have a beautiful songs and are fun to watch . They sped a lot of time in my garden on the ground and love it when i am weeding .
Hi, I live in Queensland, Australia. My yard is a mini countryside, and we have a walkway near my home. I have fed the Magpies for many years. I told them if they attacked any people, I wouldn't feed them, so there have been no attacks over 40 Years. I'm sure they understood me. They sing to me for a feed like today the baby was crying out to feed its mum so she could feed it.' I don't feed them too much a small meal once daily so the Mother teaches the baby to hunt for food. It's really a snack which they love. They are protected in Australia.
We have heckle and jeckle who would sing at our back door to come into the lounge room, we went on holidays for a week and they abandoned us. There used to be one who sat on peoples shoulders in a pub beer gsrden and picked bush flies off your back. You should check peggy and molly you tube videos and see the magpie calling her dog friend into the house by barking.
at a place I go to twice a week There is a family of magpies that come around almost all the time One male magpie there makes quite a complicated warble, I think he is mimicking another kind of bird and also some other sound I don't recognise Yesterday I saw him and a juvenile with a ball of string and for some reason he kept attacking the young one who was playing with the bundle and holding it in it's beak. And then adult male started warbling for a while And I sat and listened to him
Not some, but most nesting Magpies swoop walkers & especially cyclists. They have been known to draw blood and even take an eye. We have been feeding a nesting pair of Magpies at our home again this spring. That way we don't get swooped by them. One morning, they introduced their 3 kids to us and have continued to use our yard as a nursery. It is unusual for them to successfully raise more than 2 chicks. Usually they can not provide enough food for 3, but with us supplementing their foraging, all 3 are doing well.
I taught my dog to leave magpies alone. Now, when we go for a walk he totally ignores them (and vice versa) even when they are just off the footpath scratching around for insects. He's allowed to chase Mynahs away though (but not hurt them). They were introduced to Australia and they are the #1 pest in the country.
Birds generally have long lives . This also applies to bats. It is due to something that has been referred to as "the flight anomaly" . Animals that are capable of flight have evolved immune systems and cell repair systems that extend their lives and reduce the effects of aging. Flight is very hard on the muscle tissues , causing cell damage that must be rapidly repaired and inflammation that must be controlled and not produce negative immune responses. A microbat was tagged and then recaptured - the recapture occurred 40 years after the tagging.
Oi! TE! First in!.... My favourite bird!... Still watching...Some Cockatoos can live till 80 in captivity or 50 in the wild. Great video and reaction. Thanks.
@@ToniaElkinsthis is funny I just finished watching this about this cheeky cockatoo 😂😂😂😂 I love Magpies I go for a walk in my neighborhood and you can hear them. I love the sounds they make. Another bird that I love the sound of and can hear on my walks is the Eastern Whip Bird if you google it find the recording of the sound and you’ll know why it’s called a whip bird. This is the cheeky Cockatoo 😂😂 th-cam.com/video/g3qckJXjcJE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=A5J-SGDT_rJNuLkH
I'm a fan of magpies. I've just moved from Canberra where the magpies are black backed, to a city in central Victoria where they are white backed. If you feed an adult magpie, it will remember you and never swoop you. I had a family of magpies at an old apartment in Canberra which id feed off cuts of meat. They were semi tame, would eat it from my hand. They're very cool birds. I used to think they were corvids, same family as crows and ravens, but that was wrong. They're of a different family.
Welcome back 💩 Today I’m learning about Australian Magpies!!! And they are so cute 🥰
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We got a stalker already n the comment ok she just had enough ,n said why the heart n does it say bren n Paul or just Paul on there so please dnt do that again
Magpie birdsong is joyous to hear, absolutely beautiful.
I love hearing them every day, they are beautiful!!
In Noongar they are called "koolbardie" ..pronounced in such a way to resemble the warbling.
The song means "this is my patch, bugger off"
@@Maireadmoss They are tyrannical creatures ...
The magpies warbling first thing in the morning is such a cheerful way to start each day plus the little buggers a very cheeky 😂🇦🇺
I watched a magpie rolling snail shells along my garden path , he was “ unscrewing “ the snail from its shell ! Later that day, I saw it teaching a young bird how to do it !
LOL Can they please come here & teach my local pies to do that?
I love magpies!
They have the cutest little waddle. When they see you coming they will waddle over to you and say hi. They are fearless and very inquisitive, more so than any other bird and very friendly once you get to know them.
Australian magpies are great to have around. I am an American that has been here for 32 years and have a small acreage with several magpies that I feed off and on during each week. The butcher bird and liar birds are also great to have around. You can find videos on all3 birds and get a good education. My place is sort of a bird sanctuary for cockatoos and many other beautiful parrots. They are all great as well as possums and little glider, various bat and many more. It's like a zoo of free animals here sometimes and always something new to be learned.
I love these extremely intelligent birds.
I love waking up to the sound of warbling Magpies & Butcher Birds
The surest way to beat a case of the sad blues is to watch and listen as magpies dance, play and sing their perfect song.
I like your profile pic Almost as good as mine
@@edwardbakadingo4261 I must say that yours is very good! I've had that profile pic for over 10 years. The photo was taken at Broulee on the NSW south coast.
I love magpies.
Peace
Love Magpies, such a lovely song, so intelligent and trainable. Also make great pets and friends. They are common in New Zealand too.
I was just feeding our magpie as I was watching yours…. He is of multi generational families that have been born and live in our area… they come and sit with us and even come in the house. When I walk in my area I call them and they follow me home.. for food of course.
@@steann1 Awww! I love all these stories about the magpies 🥰
Magpies singing to each other on a full moonlit night. Beautiful.
Nightsong more likely to be Currawong. Magpies greet the dawn.
@@AndrewFishman No Currawongs in our area. We have a butcher bird which sings his heart out full volume around four am on moonlit nights too. He's lovely but loud!
Yes, on moonlit nights. The closer birds' songs are crisp and clear while the further away they are, the softer and fuzzier the sound is.
My housemate has been feeding the magpies for years and they’ve started bringing their young to meet us. I’ve had some of them eating from my hand and one has even ventured inside despite the dog. Beautiful birds ❤
@@scramblesish That’s so adorable 🥺😍
5:58 that magpie mimicking the sound of a siren was when Australia was going through one of its worst bushfire seasons to date, back in early 2020. All the bird pretty much heard was the siren of several fire trucks going past.
Love the Magpies as I walk around my suburb they are always walking (they prefer to walk than fly) around and barely move out of the way they are truly confident funny birds with beautiful calls that you miss when out of Oz.
When I was living overseas what i truly missed about Australia was the birds, especially magpies singing as it’s so beautiful & instantly recognisable.
They are very intelligent & if you give them an inch they’ll take a mile in regard to feeding them. As before you know it they’ll be in the kitchen waiting at the fridge door waiting for food…lol.
i was helping at a racetrack in wa last weekend and had a couple of juvie magpies nearby foraging. so i threw some pringles down for them, later watched them do the same beak wiping on the edge of a concrete safety wall. ppl feed magpies, usually mince for one reason. so in mating season they don't become swoop material. they recognise those who help them and treat them with respect.
Please tell people not to feed them mince. It can stick to their beaks in ways they aren't able to clear (not a food they evolved with) and cause harm, like rotting beaks :(
Awesome review of Magpies Tonia 🤩. I have personally been lucky not to have been swooped often, and where it occurred was not near my house.
In all the places I have lived around Australia, the local magpie families recognise your face fairly quickly and unless you are an arsehole they will hang around the house, raise their young'uns and provide beautiful birdsong.
Last house I was in had a tiny pond with a small pump/filter/fountain I installed, probably only 7 feet from my back sliding doors. In summer they would come down in two's or three's, sit on the rocks surrounding the pond and sing while one would dunk itself in the water get back out on a rock and shake the water off.
There are a number of birds that strop their beaks in Australia. Seeing off cockatoos from your territory is just good housekeeping. Magpies have a "just passing through" call used when passing through other territories. Humans can imitate this call and pass through feeding groups without causing too much alarm. I've also been faced with a group of magpies doing a perfect infantry skirmish line advance. Some moving forward while the others point their beaks at you.
Tonia, congratulations, you're officially an honorary Australian. You have tried Vegemite, love Tim Tam's, and now have performed an Aussie salute. Lol.
Lmao yay!! 🇺🇸🇦🇺
I spent some time overseas and when i came home and went out bush hearing magpies made me cry.
My son feeds them every day, and they bring him little presents, sometimes sparkly bits of paper or perfectly removed bits of plants, bulb and all. They are just beautiful!!
Please don’t feed them, just give water. They need the calcium from crushing bones in insects
I love my magpies we have generations who have been with us for years. Love meeting their new babies and their babies babies. Never get swooped they come into the house and sing to be fed and waddle to me when they see me. Can feed them by hand. The most beautiful noises they make and they are very very friendly.
They really are awesome animals😊
The butcher bird is basically the bird equivalent of the Predator.
The bird equivalent of a wolf in sheep's clothing LOL
I have Maggies visit my home and they bring their bubbies in to meet us, which means they trust you. They are so sweet, but it's still bloody funny when you see one swooping someone XD Thank you for watching his vid, he's a classic. Love your cat and my daughter's cat hates us watching anything too XD
Aussie salute got me😅
@@waynedieckmann9840 😂
I have a pet magpie that used to have showers and eat with my cat Heywood sit on the lounge and watch TV
I had Magpie friends for a few years before I moved. I’d sit and watch them, they got used to me, look and me and get on with life. I saw the newborns on the grass with mum getting their food for them. Then mum would stop feeding them, babies squeaked and squawked, but mum wouldn’t find their food for them. Mum was never scared of me, I guess she learned to trust me. She was teaching them to find their own food. It was lovely to watch each season as new baby Magpies were born. I didn’t know they remembered faces that long. I might go back to the area and see if they remember me.
That bought back lovely memories of watching my Maggies.
I once allied with some magpies against an invasive species in my area. We prevailed and now this creek is under their control, and they sometimes say hello.
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I love my magpie friends. I have lots in my garden. They follow me around and never swoop.
I love my local Currawong birds, their sound is magnificent
I do love the sounds of birds and just everything in nature in general. Like crickets on a hot summer night. 🥰
they are so nice....i made friends with a bunch ...i'd call them all "charlie" ...and they would come right up to get my treats - one thing i observed was how they would be less aggressive than the maggies ....fully capable of standing up to them....but would often prefer not to unless provoked
Unlike Magpies the top curve of their beak lines up with the top curve of their heads, which is aesthetically very pleasing. Very streamlined. And not to mention beautiful colour contrast of their yellow eyes. Love their sound too:)
@@jparko4944 yes,...they are lovely birds
That English guy John Gould was spot on. Their song really is beautiful to listen to. Whenever I walk past my local Maggies, I'll whistle my generic bird whistle, (which is nothing like a Magpie song), and sometimes I'll get into a call and response 'conversation' with one. | can stand there for 15 minutes just having a chin-wag with my mate standing at my feet, looking up at me with unbroken eye-contact. It's very cathartic. I love the fact that they swoop... they're just looking out for their little ones. How is that not admirable?
They are very intelligent birds they also recognise you and if your not a threat they won't swoop you
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@ToniaElkins 😀
Have a family in my backyard. When I'm in the garden they follow me around, playing. They know if I find a grub I'll throw it to them, so they will actually come right up and watch what I'm doing. Great Birds.
@@tazgecko Aww that’s so sweet!!! 🥰
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They love to perform, we used to have a family of them that would line up on our balcony and sing for some mince. Always very friendly, would just walk into our house and make themselves at home. When they trust you, they fully trust you. Cross one tho and that's a generation or 6 of them remembering you and attacking you.
Good job on your opening comments you did well he’s a Goldstar. ⭐️ for excellence😊
Hi Tonia. thank you for learning about us. Take care and Cheers.
As a 5 year old I had a chunk of hair and scalp ripped out by a swooping magpie as I walked to school - no doubt because other kids of similar age and appearance had been a threat to them in the past. However, despite that I adore and respect them. There’s nothing better than waking to the caroling song of local magpies.
@@lbd-po7cl Oh man that’s awful. I’m sorry that happened to you and so young. I’m glad you’re ok and that you still respect them tho. It’s like when you hear of people getting attacked by sharks but they still love and respect them. ❤️
I love the magpies in my yard singing. It is a beautiful sound. They particularly sing after the rain. I used to leave my back door open in one of the houses I lived in and the magpies would walk in and steal my dog's food on occasion. They were very friendly and chased away a snake from our yard at one point. They are wonderful birds. If they know you they will look after the yard and won't swoop at you. Too many people annoy them and that is why they can be aggressive at times.
I love my maggies........
Their song is so beautiful every morning
And ALL of my cats over the past decades have always been terrified of them
With good reason.... 😂😂
@@Wandafulofit 😂
They are very smart and definitely remember people , I have some regularly nesting in our street and never swoop us or the neighbours kids playing there , due to regularly getting left over food and bread . A guy at our local park mimics their sound and they come to him landing on his arms to be hand fed . Many people befriend these wild birds and they can be taught to talk . Mind you as a kid I was flying downhill through a grassy park behind a friend on our BMX bikes , a Nesting Magpie flew down to swoop my friend and I yelled out to him to warn him , just before impact he hit the brakes and this Magpies beak stuck in the back of his neck until he came off and rolled down the hill to a stop . He had two bleeding puncture marks like out of a vampire movie whilst crying in distress , still laugh about it to this day 😁 What can you say , they have character ! 😁🇦🇺
I saw an Australian Wattle bird sharpening its beak on my fence today.
So more than Magpies.
One of them swooped my brothers dog and I a few months ago. He didn’t stop for 100 metres.
You've never felt fear until you've been swooped.
@@jurgentreue1200 Lol I’m sure it’s terrifying
@@ToniaElkins ,, when I was a kid, I used to cut through a bush area on the way to school. Every spring, I'd get swooped. I quickly learnt how to run flat out waving my school bag above my head.
@@jurgentreue1200 When I was a kid the magpies lived in a tree on the school grounds. No escape and all kids were fair game.
Yep got a full hit to the head walking under some pine trees here in NZ too close to their nests I guess
This was in the North Island of NZ
Had no idea what it was as we didn't have any in the far south of the South Island😂
@@matthewmcalley392 ,, Aussie magpies getting revenge on All Blacks supporters..
West coaster here. I live in a little Hamlet near Cape Naturalist. Around 50% of the region is open farmland and where I live the rest is native Bushland and my home backs on to it. I have 19 different bird species including water birds around me and the morning chorus is simply beautiful. But the magpies are a bit different. They are a beautiful sounding song bird and the sounds they make are just so very peaceful. I go to sleep listening to them and I wake up hearing them. But they do blurt out one note that dramatically raises your alertness levels and that the screech they let out when they attack, very unnerving because they are relentless. Next to the stunningly
beautiful Major Mitchell parrot they are my favourite.
Some of the best pets I’ve had. They used to come into our kitchen for breakfast with my family when I lived in the country even our cat and dog excepted them in the house.
My cats used to lay in the sun outside the magpies used to sit on them and pluck their old fur and sing .
They were used to them as they were only kittens when they started, never hurt them.
Beautiful to watch.
Adelaide South Australia 🌏🌏🦘🦘
As kids Way back in the late 70s Melbourne vic my brothers head was split open and bloody and needed stitches. Breeding season attack.
We were playing at a local reserve park and magpie swooped.
My parents had magpies who always came and knocked on the door to be fed even coming in if the door was open, brought their babies as well. Found a baby Currawong and we could not get it back in the nest so made a place on our balcony and fed it. The Parents did come back and fed it as well but until it could fly they were happy to keep it on the cage we had on the balcony.
Half a dozen magpies were gathered around a small mound of earth near my house. I saw they were looking at one lying down, like it was dead. They seemed seemed to be wondering the same thing. One of them tested it with it's beak. It rolled down the mound and I thought it really was dead. But then it just casually got up and walked away (smugly? like "Fooled you all!)😄
I doscovered this dudes channel a few weeks back, seriously top tier content ❤❤
Magpies spend a lot of time on the ground, walking around, looking for food. The first recognizable picture that my daughter drew, before she was 2, was a magpie.
We call them Swoopers.
Love our magpies ❤
I'm 64 and have never been swooped, when I see them I always say hello beautiful.
The AFL club Collingwood are called the Magpies.
Never been swooped by a magpie. my family has always fed our local maggies. I've been swooped by plovers and even a crow once though.
Same here I show kindness to every magpie I meet and I like to feed the ones who come over to the front yard.
And I don't recall ever getting swooped.
I have seen magpies try to help a sick or injured magpie.
@@OzSteve9801 Awwww 🥺 I LOVE that ❤️
We hate our magpies when they swoop but we love them
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On my way to work most mornings,The magpie in the tree across the road will fly over to or sneek up next to me and starts walking quickly beside until I give him a bit of my bacon egg roll the bread part before I walk in the door .
@@Machetekills31 Lol awww!
I had a little magpie friend that use to come and get under the hose everytime I watered the garden, it would brisle up it feathers like it was actually having a shower. It would also come and stand next to me while I weeded the garden like it was watching what I was doing. I think it died because it just stopped coming one day and I never seen it again. 😔
The magpie gang from my childhood home remember me still . I only visit 2-3 times a year now . Weirder they know my children are mine and they get a pass . They must communicate/teach each other
We have magpies that come into our house sometimes. One time they ate my sons spaghetti dinner😂
i babysit my magpie family's chicks every year , my pair currently have 3 new ones a few months old , my magpie family spend more time in my house than i do .
We’ve had them come into our yard for over 20 years..we feed them come in my laundry sqwark wanting a feed..they generally have 3 babies every year..mum dad and babies..they’re very smart..you should hear baby Maggie’s trying to sing like their parents..
@@dianagiles9467 Aww! That’s awesome! And omg I’d love to hear a baby. 🤗
Also, I used to work in North Sydney On the 11th floor of a building and, being an amateur ornithologist, I would always take not of the Maggies building their nest in breeding season. With a pair of binoculars, I would often check the nest from my 'birds-eye' view from the 11th floor. And one splendid day I actually witnessed the first of three eggs hatch. I felt like a proud father:)
@@jparko4944 Adorable 🥰
I used to get swooped on my walk in the morning . I started bringing tidbits of food to give them. After a few walks they started coming to see me and not swoop. That was a few years ago and they still trust me
@@bob2shred894 That’s so sweet. I love that 😌
allways say hello to magpies they will remembe you
@@freddoto 🥰😍
My uncle has a property in Queensland and he has several magpies that spend as much time with him on his veranda. Or in his house as they do outside.😂
Never been swooped, never had a problem with them.
You need to get out more.
@ spent more than half my life working outside. I watched a magpie perched on a post next to a gate attack everyone who used the gate, it was the entrance to a facility. I walked through it without any problems, dunno why, i just get on with them. But they go for my brother all the time.
@@python27au That's interesting.
Magpie's are related to crows and ravens. Very intelligent. They remember people faces. If you feed them they befriend you, if youre mean to them for example throw rocks at them, they remember you and swoop down and attack when you least expect it. 😂
I have a magpie family who've lived on my property for 6 years. I have toys for them but I never feed them. Occasionally, I'll do some worm thumping for them. They love it; the worms, not so much. I tried to just let them be wild birds but they had other ideas. Every year they'll daily bring their babies right to me; I think it's a mixture of showing grandpa the kids, and showing the kids grandpa is okay to trust. The female in particular likes standing on my shoe (always the left one) and going for a ride as I walk around. I also have a very large group, maybe 15, of pied butcher birds. They have a quite simple call to let others know where they are. I whistle it and they'll come right over. Both types of birds are very social if they trust you. I think they see me as just a weird part of their families. There's something deeply satisfying in being trusted by all these birds. My neighbours (we're all on acreage) haven't been adopted so, very originally, they call me BirdMan. All I did was turn up and not alarm or hurt them. There's an interesting channel, The Magpie Whisperer, occasionally updated by the woman who has the most amazing affinity with her birds.
Love your cat . ❤
Magpies are familiar with Archimedes principle of displacement - drop some pebbles in a tube of water and the level rises so you can reach it for a drink. I don't understand the swooping though - I'm not much of a threat as I don't have wings. Maybe they met someone with a chainsaw one day? Or maybe they're being nice saying, "Move along, my babies poop here!"
Magpies are also found in abundance in New Zealand.
I now have 12 very tame magpies that visit everyday.They sing so beautifully and bring me so much joy,I just love them.❤❤❤
Had a magpie in my area who could mimic a hotted-up car (the blow-off valve), a ding-dong doorbell and a variation of a coo-ee.
Currawongs, butcher birds and magpies all have beautiful songs, particularly the latter two. Kookaburras also do that beak cleaning thing often. Every year, i go out of my way to feed the new chicks(only a few times), hence why i don't get swooped by my local magpies. One of life's little joys is watching a magpie run...it is so funny.
Males may do the hardcore swooping, but females can be pretty humourless when you're near their young chicks. But rather than getting close enough to peck you, females will sometimes make one pass, maybe a foot or two above your head, at high speed. They don't have to attack for you to know what this means. It's easier to become friends with males. Particularly the dominant male, in my experience.
Magpie song, called Caroling, is a beautiful song to hear.
I always make friends with local magpies and they do recognize individuals. I have never been attacked by a magpie, I assume because they know me. Contrary to this video I find feeling them so they associate me as being a friend, just don't make them dependent on you because that's not doing them a favor. I have learned to whistle to them in a way that somewhat resembles their caroling; they don't react as if I am intruding on their territory. We often get a concert going between us.
Any animal that may be a threat should be researched and learned about. The best way to understand them and protect yourself is to learn about them. My wife is good with them.
G'day, if you liked the maggies mimicking the sounds around them, then check out our lyrebird. It can mimick just about anything they hear.
However the maggie and currawong are my favs. I feed them at home and where i used to work. It does not take them long to get used to you and they will bring their young around when they fledge. Great job on your vids, keep it up 🤙🇦🇺
@@shaunlodge2648 I’ll definitely have to check out some more bird videos cuz I really enjoyed this one. I’m not a bird as a pet kinda person although I’ve had parakeets before, but I do think a lot of birds are beautiful and fascinating. The more I learn about magpies the more I’m loving them and respecting them ❤️
I feed a family of magpies that have a nest in a tree, two doors down. Their baby is the bravest. He regularly sings at the front door, waiting for a treat ❤
Give them water they need to teach their kids how to hunt insects not beg for processed food from people that can’t google the effects of feeding wildlife human food
There is a group around my area that sing and warble away each morning at sunrise.
I love magpies. I am friends with all my local ones. I wont feed them daily becauseci dont wan to make them dependent on me but i will put left overs out fpr them and if its chicken i will roll it in crushed insect exodkeletons so it doesnt get stuck in their beaks and cause problems. They have a beautiful songs and are fun to watch . They sped a lot of time in my garden on the ground and love it when i am weeding .
Hi, I live in Queensland, Australia. My yard is a mini countryside, and we have a walkway near my home. I have fed the Magpies for many years. I told them if they attacked any people, I wouldn't feed them, so there have been no attacks over 40 Years. I'm sure they understood me. They sing to me for a feed like today the baby was crying out to feed its mum so she could feed it.' I don't feed them too much a small meal once daily so the Mother teaches the baby to hunt for food. It's really a snack which they love. They are protected in Australia.
I've seen our male magpie feeding the babies
Magpies are my absolute favourite bird.
@@grannieannie1371 They’re becoming one of my favs too 😊
Crows are great and wont swoop. A better advertisement for the Corvid family.
Australian cockatoos can live up to almost 100 years. I love my magpies. There is a video called "The Magpie Whisperer". Well worth watching.
@@kennethdodemaide8678 Wow that’s amazing!
Maggies also have different "accents" - I have lived in Perth & Melbourne & they sound very different, it's kinda cool
@@shirazzza That’s really neat! I wonder if any of our birds are like that between like California and here.
They knock on my door in the morning to get their breakfast and tea each day ive been feeding them for years along with other varieties
i have seen the apostle birds from northern Queensland do this beak swiping too
We have heckle and jeckle who would sing at our back door to come into the lounge room, we went on holidays for a week and they abandoned us. There used to be one who sat on peoples shoulders in a pub beer gsrden and picked bush flies off your back. You should check peggy and molly you tube videos and see the magpie calling her dog friend into the house by barking.
at a place I go to twice a week
There is a family of magpies that come around almost all the time
One male magpie there makes quite a complicated warble, I think he is mimicking another kind of bird and also some other sound I don't recognise
Yesterday I saw him and a juvenile with a ball of string and for some reason he kept attacking the young one who was playing with the bundle and holding it in it's beak.
And then adult male started warbling for a while
And I sat and listened to him
I really liked your reaction. I'm from Australian btw.
@@venderstrat Hi welcome! And thank you 🥰
Not some, but most nesting Magpies swoop walkers & especially cyclists. They have been known to draw blood and even take an eye. We have been feeding a nesting pair of Magpies at our home again this spring. That way we don't get swooped by them. One morning, they introduced their 3 kids to us and have continued to use our yard as a nursery. It is unusual for them to successfully raise more than 2 chicks. Usually they can not provide enough food for 3, but with us supplementing their foraging, all 3 are doing well.
Magpie are a fantastic birds, I have lunch break and I always look out for them, they like bread and meat. They are bird will that remember you. Mick
I taught my dog to leave magpies alone. Now, when we go for a walk he totally ignores them (and vice versa) even when they are just off the footpath scratching around for insects. He's allowed to chase Mynahs away though (but not hurt them). They were introduced to Australia and they are the #1 pest in the country.
Birds generally have long lives . This also applies to bats.
It is due to something that has been referred to as "the flight anomaly" . Animals that are capable of flight have evolved immune systems and cell repair systems that extend their lives and reduce the effects of aging.
Flight is very hard on the muscle tissues , causing cell damage that must be rapidly repaired and inflammation that must be controlled and not produce negative immune responses.
A microbat was tagged and then recaptured - the recapture occurred 40 years after the tagging.
Birds have something going on, especially the meat eaters like Crows, Eagles etc. They eat all sorts of rotten meat and it doesn't seem to worry them.
Oi! TE! First in!.... My favourite bird!... Still watching...Some Cockatoos can live till 80 in captivity or 50 in the wild. Great video and reaction. Thanks.
Wow 80 years! Thats incredible. 🥰
@@ToniaElkinsthis is funny I just finished watching this about this cheeky cockatoo 😂😂😂😂 I love Magpies I go for a walk in my neighborhood and you can hear them. I love the sounds they make. Another bird that I love the sound of and can hear on my walks is the Eastern Whip Bird if you google it find the recording of the sound and you’ll know why it’s called a whip bird.
This is the cheeky Cockatoo 😂😂
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I'm a fan of magpies. I've just moved from Canberra where the magpies are black backed, to a city in central Victoria where they are white backed. If you feed an adult magpie, it will remember you and never swoop you. I had a family of magpies at an old apartment in Canberra which id feed off cuts of meat. They were semi tame, would eat it from my hand. They're very cool birds. I used to think they were corvids, same family as crows and ravens, but that was wrong. They're of a different family.