Magpie swooping advice

[Kim Sterelny <>]

If you do it before swooping begins it works a treat, Too late, if the swooping has begun, I susoect. Magpies love fat so if she wants to svae her worms but is not vegetarian, fat scraps (bacon rinds are good) will go down well. But she will also make extra friends if there are currawongs around

kim,

Kim Sterelny, School of Philosophy, Research School of the Social Sciences, Australian National University, Acton, 0200, ACT, Australia

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From: Birding-Aus <> on behalf of Bill Stent <>
Sent: Sunday, 20 June 2021 10:40 PM
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Subject: [Birding-Aus] Magpie swooping advice

 

Hi brains trust, Bill here

My sister is a crossing guard at a primary school in the mornings in Melbourne.

She’s just moved to a new crossing, and apparently there’s a very swoopy Magpie there that terrorises the kids in Soring.

Swooping season is coming up and my sister was wondering if it might be worth trying to make friends with the Magpie.

She’s proposing putting a plate of worms from her worm farm each morning of the next school holidays in an attempt to get the local Magpies to recognise her as “not a threat”.

Do people think this might work? It sounds a possibility to me.
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