Specialized "PieProof" helmets that protect ears and faces have also become popular during swooping season. Media reports have cited injuries, event cancellations due to swooping-risks and accidents ...

(CNN) — An Australian family is mourning the loss of a five-month-old girl who died after her mother tried to protect her from a swooping magpie. Baby Mia was in her mother’s arms when a magpie ...

Geoff Maslen was riding his bike to the gym on a beautiful spring day in Melbourne, Australia when he started to feel something pinging off the back of his helmet. At first, he was confused by the ...

Experts estimate the wildfires currently burning through southern Australia have killed over half a billion animal Australian magpies, a species unrelated to the other magpies found throughout the ...

Her mother was ducking to avoid the swooping bird, when she fell. A baby girl has been killed in a freak accident in Australia after her mother was attacked by a magpie. Police in Brisbane said the ...

For many New Zealanders, the Australian magpie is a familiar, if sometimes vexing, sight. Introduced from Australia in the 1860s, magpies are known for their territorial dive-bombing during the ...

When Dominique Potvin and her team set out to test a new technology for tracking birds, they didn’t think they were entering into an interspecies game of one-upmanship. Instead, Potvin, an animal ...

Tens of thousands of Australians have signed a petition calling for wildlife officials to give back Molly the magpie, one half of a dog-and-bird duo made famous on Instagram. Molly was seized from a ...

Gymnorhina tibicen - Australian Magpie in Australia, New Zealand in the rain(Getty Images/iStockphoto/phototrip) A songbird mimicking the sounds of emergency sirens ...

Australians are braced for marauding magpies. September brings swooping season, the time when these native birds with black and white feathers, beady burnt sienna-colored eyes and very aggressive ...