Australians are well accustomed to swooping birds - there are plovers, noisy miners and even the kookaburra. But magpies are considered the ultimate "swoopy boy" and few people are without a story.

It's nesting season in Australia and people are on high alert for vicious swooping Australian magpies. The much-loved songbird is loathed for its tendancy to divebomb cyclists, pedestrians, and ...

A cyclist died in Australia on Sunday after being startled by a swooping magpie, a native Australian bird that gets aggressive in the spring around breeding season. The 76-year-old man was riding ...

A cyclist died in Australia on Sunday after being startled by a swooping magpie, a native Australian bird that gets aggressive in the spring around breeding season. The 76-year-old man was riding ...

It's springtime Down Under, and along with overexuberant local football fans, that means another annual menace on Australian streets: angry birds. September is peak magpie breeding season. And ...

An Australian bike rider died Sunday after he veered off the road to avoid a swooping magpie, police say. The unidentified 76-year-old man was cycling along Nicholson Park in Woonona, New South ...

Australians are well accustomed to swooping birds - there are plovers, noisy miners and even the kookaburra. But magpies are considered the ultimate "swoopy boy" and few people are without a story.

Don't run. Travel in groups. Carry an umbrella and wear sunglasses on the back of your head. These are some of the ominous warnings issued in Australia each spring, as magpies and humans begin ...