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polymetricr
without the highlighting i wouldn't have know what to read
Laeryc
I have a twelve gauge solution to swooping season and food for the less fortunate
CorgisButtsDriveMeNuts
So birds are basically flying cats
gavo2o
Has anyone else earnt the magpie's trust enough to be shown their babies?
Walkingcarpet
Aussies have to be the toughest people on the planet to have made a first rate country out of a place like this.
UnderAverageGamer
https://youtu.be/YGGTcYfrEZU
xistence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGGTcYfrEZU - The eyes don't work. HILARIOUS!
PhailRaptor
Nobody gonna mention the cassowary? It's basically the offspring of an emu and a velociraptor...
Squillel
voulge
Birds that help with chores? We all know they only help pretty girls who sing well.
butterbunns
aparently maggies swoop people that look like others that have threatened their nest. you look like them they will 1/2
butterbunns
come after you. if your friends they will be cool with you. and you can feed them treats so they become bros before swooping season 2/2
DickTugsMore
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/09/14/world/what-in-the-world/australia-magpie-season.html the last fucking paragraph though
SaltySenorita
PhiIIipJFry
So this stuff is mostly truish but remember Australian's favourite pastime is fucking with people not from here.
NPS1
Fucking Plovers man, they were the worst.
Thetingwitdating
A-fucking-men to that. Loud, aggressive and they look like they have a slice of cheese on their face
OddlyIrrelevantUsername
Dohpaz
I don't know why this is so hilarious but I'm crying right now
TeamNegan
Sad they forgot the best bird of all
MexicanInQueensland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soZefV-PLFI Not in my country boyo.
TeamNegan
Well damn
AnyaJenkins
Did you know that they don't have trains in Australia
Nchalada
You're off your rocker there, mate. We do have trains... just not many of them beyond the main cities
AnyaJenkins
It's a reference. Someone on tumblr once went to Australia to visit family. They told them there weren't amy trains there.
iguessihaveto
They have road trains, those are super neat!
revcleo
Sorry @OP australian magpies aren't corvids, like the american robin isn't the same as a european robin.
iguessihaveto
Oh, for real? Ah well. They're still really cool!
revcleo
As a note: it's in the "butcherbird" genus so that explains a lot about the behaviour
iguessihaveto
Metal!
revcleo
They're passerines and look very threatening https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_magpie
iguessihaveto
:-D
sleckd
Fucking swooping season??
whimsicalsamurai
MexicanInQueensland
http://www.ozanimals.com/image/albums/australia/Bird/normal_200411210021.jpg
2020Gamer
Wow not only will they try to murder you, they're protected more than you are.
Kuroinoakuma
Yup, Magpies are cunts that basically divebomb you if you're anywhere remotely near a tree they might be nesting in with young...
Ihavewaytoomanyfavoritestosort
Geez, and here I thought it was a strange when a mockingbird kept bluffing and flying near my head because her baby was on my porch.
Afghaniscran
Seagulls in England do something similar just less violent, it's more like an empty threat.
mercifulwombat
Do Australians not put screens on their windows?
SuckAnElf
Moved from the US to Belgium last year, was horrified to learn they apparently don't use screens here. My house is full of bugs, send help
numbat
We had a kookaburra poke a hole through it to get at our sausages once...
dreadpiratekhan
Window screens seem to be a peculiarly American thing
MotokoKurenai
As an Australian, I've never seen a window without a screen on it here. Way to many mosquitos where I live. A big bird will rip it up tho.
MotokoKurenai
Also snakes, spiders, long tail rats, cats, various fucking bugs and lizards will get in your house without a screen.
dreadpiratekhan
Fair enough! I just have experience with Europe and SE Asia, not y'all :)
shhep
You mean that delicate mesh of fabric that keeps bugs out? Parrots are known to reap plastic roofs off fruit storages. How the fuck would
shhep
window screen help, lol.
asm80dfa8sdfj
It helps in the US. If they don't know they can rip it off, they don't rip it off.
Thisusernamewasnotalreadyinuse
How can anyone even think about leaving a window without a screen open? A bird is not even in the top 500 of bad things that will visit you!
iwearlittlesocks
zorrokater
i live in switzerland. i have never seen a window with a screen here
IAmOnlyDoingThisToTestSomething
But....bugs....so many bugs.
xRocketman52x
Do you just ignore all the bees, wasps, hornets, mosquitos, gnats, flies, and other shit that crawls, flies, or squats it's way in?
zorrokater
when you let the window open for a day the worst thing that could happen is a wasp but thats like once a week. my window is always open haha
xRocketman52x
That's insane. Ive literally gotten one type of bee or hornet in my window within ten minutes of getting home four days out of the past week
FeChefImgur
Yeah, used to play games with the magpies. See who could make furtherest across a field before chickening out as the dives get ever closer.
manifestcrackers
I'm opening a midevil helms shop in australia. affordable protection. just like the vikings did it.
TheGodUncle
Is midevil between not evil and completely evil?
manifestcrackers
well the zipties will sometimes poke you. they arent exactly comfortable.
FeChefImgur
Cable ties are commonly used on helmets to "distract" the magpies - http://barfblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/magpie.bicycle.helmet.jpg
borgmaster
Australia is a strange place. The fact that i can accept that as a functioning anti-magpie tool makes the whole thing better.
ireallylikejamontoast
Thank you so much for this picture, I've been laughing hysterically for the last few mins
FeChefImgur
You're most welcome :)
iguessihaveto
This is the coolest thing I've ever seen.
FeChefImgur
"coolest thing I've ever seen" is a pretty bold claim !
iguessihaveto
I live on the edge.