Marcela Montalva Iriarte has launched a GoFundMe after a magpie attack while on holiday in Australia has left her with a ...

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 ...

When people think of notorious animals in Australia, they usually picture snakes, spiders, or sharks. But there's another creature causing a stir — not with venom or teeth, but with wings and attitude ...

It was the silence that sounded the alarm. Australia has known the melodious magpie “dawn carol” for millions of years. No one has lived on this land without waking to the soft symphony. Except now, ...

Cyclist Rhys Newell was just out for a ride in northern New South Wales when he suddenly felt something clawing at his face. Checking his cheek, he felt a small wound — he'd been swooped. "Usually, ...

Elizabeth Steell received funding from Girton College and Newnham College, University of Cambridge, UK. Alan Tennyson received funding from the Te Papa Collection Development Fund and the Australian ...

Technologies such as micro-CT scanning are now helping to reveal the secrets of some of New Zealand's smallest birds.

Most of our knowledge of New Zealand’s prehistoric bird diversity comes from long-lost species with bones large enough to be studied by eye. But many bird bones are so tiny we can barely see their ...

Australia is the most antique land mass on earth, and also the most exiguously populated by large mammals: much about its deep past and the buried sources of its present remains obscure. All through ...

The Palmerston Magpies may be sitting bottom of the NTFL ladder but a focus on building around their strong youth system has ...

A woman was attacked by a magpie while working abroad. Marcela Montalva moved to Ravenswood, a small and remote town in the ...

The Chilean expat has set up a GoFundMe to pay rising medical bills A YOUNG expat living in Queensland, Australia has described the traumatic moment she was attacked by a magpie – with doctors saying ...