Just feed them once a week with dog biscuits or meal worms - not too much though (and no mincemeat or bread)

Kids used to get swooped on the way to the school bus. We started feeding them. Now kids in front of them get swooped, kids behind them get swooped, my kids are "the untouchables"... 🤣🤣 Magpies recognise people (like crows do)...

If you can set up a routine, they'll even sing for you. Ours will sit on the mailbox and sing in the mornings or evenings. They even bring their babies along once they hatch.

They can get ballsy - one year they started tapping on the glass of my back door when they were hungry. I gently shooed them away and only fed them out the front in the evenings. They got with the program super quick...

Is there anything in Australia that isnt constantly murderous? Seems like everything is constantly aggro'd

Magpies are supposed to be cute little cheeky things that'll steal your shinies if youre not careful.

Just walk around with a tennis racket?

It's Australia, everything is deadly. Even your nettle species can kill you, what's it called, gimpy gimpy or some shit. Hawks that grab burning brands from fires to drop in new areas to chase out game they can grab, and everything else.

Wait, that episode of Bluey was based on a real thing?!? WTF Australia?

Is this really about magpies? I'm asking because those are also local to Germany and aside from being known to be able to steal things they are harmless if you don't piss them off (crows too).

Are those more dangerous or is the sign over the top?

Honestly curious.

Edit: Thanks for the Answers, TIL!

Deliberately provoking them as a kid to get swooped is a cornerstone of any upbringing.
Also plovers swoop people too.

Wagga wagga citizen how do you call yourself? Wagga Waggers?

Moving here is anything but dull 😁😅

This is just normal behaviour for the seagulls here in the city lol

As with most creatures in Australia I guess, the Magpies are out to get you and you could take precautions but The eyes don't work...

report a swooping bird incident

Not sure why, but that's funny.

Are they really that aggressive even without protecting their young/eggs? Because that I have experienced many times (Northern Europe, all sorts of birds).

Not sure how similar they are to the magpies in Canada, but they can get vicious here. I saw them hunting a rabbit while on a walk by circling it and swooping down to keep it contained any time it tried to leave.

I started yelling at them, shooed the bunny away, and bought a bird feeder

At least there's only one

My experience of Corvids is not to piss them off, they hold grudges and pass them down through generations.

Although, I feed the crows and ravens in my area, and they seem nice enough.

I suppose, pissing them off might have been the issue here.

Crikey!

birds will do it, if you are close to thier nest.