Plover bird protecting its eggs. The plover lays its eggs in a wide open space and then vigorously protects them with its threatening movements and calls.
I reckon these birds are pretty smart. I rescued some babies once off the road before they got squashed (as they just ducked down in the middle and wouldn't move), the parents were actually pretty chill didn't try and attack me once I put the babies down off the road. I was expecting them to come after me because they don't know what's really going on but it was almost like they knew I somewhat helped them out.
I have some hanging around the house. They have their chicks in the back yard, but someone cat get them. I feel so sorry for the parent birds they looks so distressed.
@@myvideocassette yeh I saw a similar thing a couple parents lost their chicks or eggs because the area was mowed.... they were behaving like they had lost their mind, like if humans suffered some trauma. Hard to explain but they were acting really strange, it obviously had a strong effect on them.
Most birds are fairly smart. Most swooping birds don't actually want to put themselves in danger like that, it's just one of their limited intimidation tactics and they'll only do it to large animals like humans if they have previous bad experience with them or absolutely no experience with them. Most of the time, if people have been chill with them they'll be chill with people, same applies to magpies. Issues arise when people are taught these birds are aggressive, so people behave aggressively towards them constantly and they're left traumatised and terrified of people. If you see their eggs anywhere it's good to put some manner of marker like a post or tee-pee sort of stick arrangement so they don't get accidentally damaged by people.
I've also noticed that plovers seemed to have worked out a way of minimising predators by laying their eggs at intersections and roundabouts so that there is a "shield" of cars constantly flowing around or near them, thus making it dangerous for foxes, cats etc .... Of course I don't know if it is coincidence or by design.
It's not a plover, it's a masked lapwing. When protecting the nest the male comes up close to you and screams LOUDLY at you. Meanwhile mum pretends to have a broken wing and lures you away as she presents herself as your dinner. When you are lured/chased away she magically gets better
We have a plover at school that has babies and we go close up to the mother and dad and they know us and they don’t squeak as much just once and she remembers us lol
When I was in 4th grade, I spied a plovers nest with some fledglings. I ran over eagerly, hoping to catch a nestling in my hand and release it. The parents both started making hell of a lot of noise, and started dive bombing my head! I was distracted for just one second, and diverted my attention from the nestling running in front me on the ground. I looked down, gone! I could not figure it out! Later, I came to know that the nestling probably laid down as defense, and they are so well camouflaged, I thought it was just a small rock or a small mound of earth! These guys are so adorable!
I once saw a few plovers on our school oval. It "patrolled" the area where our bags were, and someone had the bright idea to whack it with something. We all were running away from a bunch of angry plovers come the end of lunch.
Use to film horse racing around Victoria one day up on the back camera tower I filmed a steward walking across the centre of inside track grass area ski racing channel showed it live on air as he was being swooped and he looked like a freaked out cat running away with his head down it was an hysterical laugh to remember! Love these birds they just keep to themselves and only protect their young
The cameran just survived because he is the cameraman, but most of them perished, it's called the "survivor bias", do not believe it's safe just because you see a video like that, it's clear this one just had massive luck or was streaming live and the ending of the video were cut. I think Australians can confirm this is suspicious.
These birds remind me of some "JAYDEN" on a train along the Central Coast & Newcastle line who wants to attack you because you tell him & his kids that they're in a quiet carriage & they need to move to another carriage if they want to talk & make noise.
These fellas are just a reskin of the Southern Lapwing around here, they behave the exact same way 😂 0:55 Here it is trying to pretend it is hurt, to take your attention away from the nest.
I've been swooped by them as many times as i can remember, we use to get swooped for fun as kids XD but as we grew up it was cruel to put them in distress. I f you think plovers are bad wait until a magpie swoops you :O
@@zanthus-kid-8959 I'm a native bird rescuer so go and do something constructive with your time such as volunteering with a wildlife rescue organisation like WIRES instead of wasting your time making puerile comments on the internet. They only swoop when protecting their young so be kind, compassionate and think about others and leave them alone.
We used to have plovers chase us when I was younger too it was fun, well not make but whenever we walked through the bikes ring they tried attacking us but yeah scary but exilerating.
We have these guys rearing a baby in our yard..used to hate em but after watching them closely I've gotta tip my hat,there ripping parents and smart as fuck👍
That looks more like a lapwing than a plover although lapwings normally don’t posses the yellow face. So it’s probably a species of lapwing and not a plover since plovers don’t posses the feathery crests
They are known both as masked lapwings and spurwing plovers. The latter is annoying because they are not as closely related to plovers but that tends to be the more common name because it's easier to say
I had plovers nest on my roof and they didnt worry my at all, every time I went out I took a walking stick with a scarf tied to it just in case they did swoop me and when the eggs hatched I had the window open taking photos of them and they still didnt swoop me,and one is back.
Are you sure it was plover? Normally plovers nest on the ground, plus the “plover” in the video was an Australian lapwing, a southern relative of the more colourful ones we have in the UK
The guy is doing nothing wrong, he is just experiencing life with animal kingdom, and want others to experience what he got. Animals didn't get there names because everyone stayed away from animal wimmers. Humans wilfully murder unborn humans, now that's something for you to wimmer over. Have a nice weekend.
Plovers nest near water, these are masked plovers, a species native to Australia. We also have them in the UK although ours are more colourful and nest on grassy marshes
What an awful sound. I've had them torment me for months and they scream from around 3.30am to 11pm. Horrible little things. How soon until they'll be extinct?
There was a plover once in my backyard so we left her alone and when we were going to see if her eggs were okay healthy and strong all 4 of the eggs were gone and the parents were very upset and so was I
aww i know nature can be sad..we just watched a family lose one..tried to save it but it drowned in a small drain..each time i went out the mother wouldn't let me near. we saved one but one died
Lapwings and plover chicks leave the best pretty much as soon as they hatch, so they were probably hiding somewhere and you thought she looked “sad”. Although I don’t deny predation from rats, foxes, jackdaws and magpies does occur
If there is any niche, an animal will evolve or adapt to take advantage of it. Competition for nests in trees is fierce, so if the animal can keep its eggs safe on the ground, however which way, they will continue to do so. They use aggression and subversion tactics, and it works for them, so that's how they're alive. And tbh before humans took over the world, Plains where they nest wouldve been alot safer for them. Just so happens when humans moved in and made these fields for our own gain and destroyed alot their natural habitat they have adapted to nest in our sports fields.
Same lol. Masked lapwings always nest at my school, and it's funny when they start screaming every time someone walks past their nest. I do feel bad for stressing them out, but it was so fun to get them to swoop me xd
@@JohnGardnerAlhadis this a lapwing not a plover lol. Plovers nest near the coast or near rivers on pebbley shores lapwings are larger and nest on marshes. Jesus Christ
For them, it's a good spot. Just like how spiders build webs across walkways, we make them nice and wide and open with these bright lights that attract bugs. Perfect place for a web, if no-one walks through there for a few days.
One time me and my friend were locking the gates and everyday at school we would go to the plovers and the swoopted us but this first one was an accident I went too close and they swooped me then at Friday (we were doing it for 2 weeks everyday) my friend went so close when he came back they swooped him when they did he fell down and started bleeding
had a nasty little encounter with these birds down at Nowra when one decided to swoop and attack my 8 yr old daughter to the gravel road.... was not impressed... i hate them... stupid birds , why lay eggs on the ground ??
I reckon these birds are pretty smart. I rescued some babies once off the road before they got squashed (as they just ducked down in the middle and wouldn't move), the parents were actually pretty chill didn't try and attack me once I put the babies down off the road. I was expecting them to come after me because they don't know what's really going on but it was almost like they knew I somewhat helped them out.
I have some hanging around the house. They have their chicks in the back yard, but someone cat get them. I feel so sorry for the parent birds they looks so distressed.
@@myvideocassette yeh I saw a similar thing a couple parents lost their chicks or eggs because the area was mowed.... they were behaving like they had lost their mind, like if humans suffered some trauma. Hard to explain but they were acting really strange, it obviously had a strong effect on them.
Most birds are fairly smart. Most swooping birds don't actually want to put themselves in danger like that, it's just one of their limited intimidation tactics and they'll only do it to large animals like humans if they have previous bad experience with them or absolutely no experience with them. Most of the time, if people have been chill with them they'll be chill with people, same applies to magpies.
Issues arise when people are taught these birds are aggressive, so people behave aggressively towards them constantly and they're left traumatised and terrified of people.
If you see their eggs anywhere it's good to put some manner of marker like a post or tee-pee sort of stick arrangement so they don't get accidentally damaged by people.
I've also noticed that plovers seemed to have worked out a way of minimising predators by laying their eggs at intersections and roundabouts so that there is a "shield" of cars constantly flowing around or near them, thus making it dangerous for foxes, cats etc .... Of course I don't know if it is coincidence or by design.
That "attack position" is actually the bird faking a broken wing in order to try a lure you over to it and away from the nest.
I was going to say this. They go up behind you and pretend they are injured to lure you away from the nest.
No it is faking falling & breaking a wing
@@fantasticalweiner why do they do that
So true she trys to pretend something it's not a far attack position eather
@@smileycat5788 so a predator goes for it and not the eggs
Every Australian learns to fear this noise lol
Not me I feed birds
Yes
Yes utterly terrifying sound
I learn to love them
in primary school me and the boys would piss off the local plovers for the thrill of it
we went usain bolting
Plover in my school thinks it’s being attacked when it thinks it’s a good idea to plop some eggs in the middle of the oval where everyone plays
All Australians are guaranteed to have Vietnam flashbacks if they hear this sound
That's me
I just hate the bastards
I got thrown off my horse because he spooked at one being a cunt, there were no eggs and no nest
I remember walking home from school with mates when i heard this noise looked behind me it was there and we all just ran
I’m honestly surprised you got that close without being swooped to death
It's not a plover, it's a masked lapwing.
When protecting the nest the male comes up close to you and screams LOUDLY at you. Meanwhile mum pretends to have a broken wing and lures you away as she presents herself as your dinner.
When you are lured/chased away she magically gets better
It's a spur-winged plover, dammit.
Both are interchangeable! You're both right here
It's called a masked plover a lot of other places. But otherwise yes.
We have a plover at school that has babies and we go close up to the mother and dad and they know us and they don’t squeak as much just once and she remembers us lol
Plover: Oh! Here comes those hoomans again. I'll just stand by the nest. You may look. BUT DONT TOUCH! I'll plov you if you do
When I was in 4th grade, I spied a plovers nest with some fledglings. I ran over eagerly, hoping to catch a nestling in my hand and release it. The parents both started making hell of a lot of noise, and started dive bombing my head! I was distracted for just one second, and diverted my attention from the nestling running in front me on the ground. I looked down, gone! I could not figure it out!
Later, I came to know that the nestling probably laid down as defense, and they are so well camouflaged, I thought it was just a small rock or a small mound of earth!
These guys are so adorable!
I once saw a few plovers on our school oval. It "patrolled" the area where our bags were, and someone had the bright idea to whack it with something.
We all were running away from a bunch of angry plovers come the end of lunch.
Use to film horse racing around Victoria one day up on the back camera tower I filmed a steward walking across the centre of inside track grass area ski racing channel showed it live on air as he was being swooped and he looked like a freaked out cat running away with his head down it was an hysterical laugh to remember!
Love these birds they just keep to themselves and only protect their young
suprised how long it took him to even do a thing i was right next to a plover for 40 secs and it completely full on swooped me
Love this noise early in the morning
Plover:don’t go near my eggs you humans
Actually quite a few plovers just swoop to intimidate they don’t hit you (although they come pretty close)
The cameran just survived because he is the cameraman, but most of them perished, it's called the "survivor bias", do not believe it's safe just because you see a video like that, it's clear this one just had massive luck or was streaming live and the ending of the video were cut. I think Australians can confirm this is suspicious.
Came back to school After The Holidays To See This Bad Boys On The Oval.
Why are half the words caps? You’re not typing in a title.
-KurryMunchaKaudZ- 2020: what’s school
I'm scared to even go near one. I got swooped today and I RAN MY ASS HOME
Hats off to this dude for risking his life to record this 🫡
These birds remind me of some "JAYDEN" on a train along the Central Coast & Newcastle line who wants to attack you because you tell him & his kids that they're in a quiet carriage & they need to move to another carriage if they want to talk & make noise.
rip to all head phone users haha
This is an evolutionary adaption after watching soccer players.
These fellas are just a reskin of the Southern Lapwing around here, they behave the exact same way 😂
0:55 Here it is trying to pretend it is hurt, to take your attention away from the nest.
I've been swooped by them as many times as i can remember, we use to get swooped for fun as kids XD but as we grew up it was cruel to put them in distress. I f you think plovers are bad wait until a magpie swoops you :O
This Mason??
If you play this at top volume near a plover they freak out and swoop and it's honestly really fun
And cause the creatures unnecessary distress. Do something positive with your time.
@@soloist777 nah
@@soloist777 don't be an uptight Karen my baby cousin has permanent trauma from one of theese
@@zanthus-kid-8959 I'm a native bird rescuer so go and do something constructive with your time such as volunteering with a wildlife rescue organisation like WIRES instead of wasting your time making puerile comments on the internet. They only swoop when protecting their young so be kind, compassionate and think about others and leave them alone.
We used to have plovers chase us when I was younger too it was fun, well not make but whenever we walked through the bikes ring they tried attacking us but yeah scary but exilerating.
that's a masked lapwing
This dude livrs in Garry’s Mod map.
We have these guys rearing a baby in our yard..used to hate em but after watching them closely I've gotta tip my hat,there ripping parents and smart as fuck👍
Bird presented with the Logie award @ the end
That looks more like a lapwing than a plover although lapwings normally don’t posses the yellow face. So it’s probably a species of lapwing and not a plover since plovers don’t posses the feathery crests
They are known both as masked lapwings and spurwing plovers. The latter is annoying because they are not as closely related to plovers but that tends to be the more common name because it's easier to say
Their babies grow very quick lol
My 9yo self has fond memories of running around like a mad man through where they nested😂 fun times...
When the fly at me…I run towards it!
Sadly, a very high mortality rate for the Plover chicks. Highly predated on from above and ground.
Woah we have plovers in the uk but they aren't that fisty!
I had plovers nest on my roof and they didnt worry my at all, every time I went out I took a walking stick with a scarf tied to it just in case they did swoop me and when the eggs hatched I had the window open taking photos of them and they still didnt swoop me,and one is back.
Are you sure it was plover? Normally plovers nest on the ground, plus the “plover” in the video was an Australian lapwing, a southern relative of the more colourful ones we have in the UK
When it runs it reminds me of road runner expect more scary than funny.
sounds like it's shooting laser beams at you
When my family moved to Tas from Washington State in the 1970s, this was the first wildlife attack I experienced. I sure miss those crazy plovers.
They're also one of the few birds you hear regularly at all hours of the night especially in summer. They're a comfort to hear at night.
Love plovers, really brave birds, they chase hawks right out of their airspace , fearless .
Next, show the *swoop* every Aussie learns to fear.
u have balls to get that close to it
his braver then you
I do this all the time, its really fun
Yes, been known to take an eye, killed a four year child in Derby WA once, Google it.
@@rileysimpson1689 he's
cool bird
Neat video. Thanks for sharing it.
I came here after reading about them in my TOEFL test lol
Thanks For Sharing Video
Thanks because I have plovers in my yard and this scared them
Because of the noise
I would have grabbed the bird tbh their kinda cute
I love these things. So cool
Haha wild mummy agression starts
Adorable.
Sounds like a printer for receipts or invoices.
E A R R A P E ! ! !
More like a diversion than “attack” to divert other animals or humans away from the eggs
Plover sounds vs kookaburra sound
*Leave my eggs alone craggy wag*
Literally the worst bird in the country. If it didn't lay its eggs in open fields it wouldn't have to be so anxious 24/7 xD
Just leave it alone
I no right g
You smell
The guy is doing nothing wrong, he is just experiencing life with animal kingdom, and want others to experience what he got. Animals didn't get there names because everyone stayed away from animal wimmers. Humans wilfully murder unborn humans, now that's something for you to wimmer over. Have a nice weekend.
Love the plover! Awesome bird.
@@simonpatcharin it’s a lapwing...
Why is the bird in gm_construct irl
The Misfits sent me here
Yeaehehehehehhhheaaehhh
Awww...
This noise omg 😆
and why would they nest in plain sight?
There is plovers with a nest right next to my bus stop and it’s freaking scary!!!
I've been bombarded by the father bird during nesting super aggressive
Plovers nest near water, these are masked plovers, a species native to Australia. We also have them in the UK although ours are more colourful and nest on grassy marshes
@@theotheseaeagle they’re at my bus stop again now and there’s not really water near it
@@dovewing yea bc it’s a masked lapwing not a plover lol
@@theotheseaeagle everyone i know just calls them plovers
What an awful sound. I've had them torment me for months and they scream from around 3.30am to 11pm. Horrible little things. How soon until they'll be extinct?
I hear them screaming at me and classmate
Could be mistaken for Barkers eggs, in that field.
Why does it look like a breed of dodo?
There was a plover once in my backyard so we left her alone and when we were going to see if her eggs were okay healthy and strong all 4 of the eggs were gone and the parents were very upset and so was I
aww i know nature can be sad..we just watched a family lose one..tried to save it but it drowned in a small drain..each time i went out the mother wouldn't let me near. we saved one but one died
@@smileycat5788 aww
Lapwings and plover chicks leave the best pretty much as soon as they hatch, so they were probably hiding somewhere and you thought she looked “sad”. Although I don’t deny predation from rats, foxes, jackdaws and magpies does occur
10years ago got this nice camera
Welp uh.. these dudes are living in my school with their 4 chicks- sucks to be me
Fear the kek
How did these even survive? Building nests on the ground doesn't sound like a great idea
If there is any niche, an animal will evolve or adapt to take advantage of it. Competition for nests in trees is fierce, so if the animal can keep its eggs safe on the ground, however which way, they will continue to do so. They use aggression and subversion tactics, and it works for them, so that's how they're alive.
And tbh before humans took over the world, Plains where they nest wouldve been alot safer for them. Just so happens when humans moved in and made these fields for our own gain and destroyed alot their natural habitat they have adapted to nest in our sports fields.
hahahaha I remember we had these at school for a while. best time ever running away from them hahaha
Haha yep😂
Same lol. Masked lapwings always nest at my school, and it's funny when they start screaming every time someone walks past their nest. I do feel bad for stressing them out, but it was so fun to get them to swoop me xd
You solve gotten slashed by the plovers spikes if you were not careful enough
goopy The only they dont have spikes dumbass
@@taxijack3072 Google "spur-winged plover" you fucking idiot.
You solve use better English sows we no way you ar truing too seh.
@@JohnGardnerAlhadis this a lapwing not a plover lol. Plovers nest near the coast or near rivers on pebbley shores lapwings are larger and nest on marshes. Jesus Christ
You were game to get up close, they are scary ..
Magpies attack too
Silly bird
It's a mad girl with eggs
i could beat the shit out of this bird if confronted
Itzpdig06 I've killed a few with sticks whilst they were swooping me.. But without the stick it would be foolish
Good luck mate
muzeo Wolf 69 I smashed a rock over ones head
They are a protected species ,killing them can result in massive fines or even jail.
plovers are a highly protrcted bird
Is a male or female, because it looks like a gun.
00:53 I'm fast as fuck boi!!!!
where are the eggs
lol i would throw a rock at it
scary, if these birds were any bigger they would eat us
Lol I got swooped 4 times today because they had eggs
I play this for my dog - we love to go Plover bowling.....they're asshole birds - rats with wings.
Why pick such a dumb spot
For them, it's a good spot. Just like how spiders build webs across walkways, we make them nice and wide and open with these bright lights that attract bugs. Perfect place for a web, if no-one walks through there for a few days.
One time me and my friend were locking the gates and everyday at school we would go to the plovers and the swoopted us but this first one was an accident I went too close and they swooped me then at Friday (we were doing it for 2 weeks everyday) my friend went so close when he came back they swooped him when they did he fell down and started bleeding
These birds are horrible lol.
That Plover has no clue. How could it use it's wing spurs on the ground like that? lol
i had the worst day ever 3 magpie's swooped me and 4 plovers my life sucked 2day
I ride to school and when I come out of my house and arrive back, 3 butcher birds attack me :(
That Sucks;/
So they should protecting there eggs that's baby's
i hate this birds, attacked me today :(
These birds are the worst than the magpie.
Worst eh! Whatchoo smolikng
Who ever dosen’t like plovers I don’t like you
had a nasty little encounter with these birds down at Nowra when one decided to swoop and attack my 8 yr old daughter to the gravel road.... was not impressed... i hate them... stupid birds , why lay eggs on the ground ??
If you hate them you hate me.....NEVER SAY THAT ABOUT PLOVERS
Through a stick at 1 today it hit it and its wing Came off :) Don’t worry I put it out of its mizzery
They are a protected species on australia ,harrasing,harming or killing will result in huge fines and or jail.
Moron troll.