Australia's Magpie Swooping Map 2025!

Australia's social website to track aggressive swooping magpies in your area. If you are a cyclist, walker, runner or maybe a concerned member of the public then help protect others and share swooping magpie attacks on-line here!

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Reported activity: standard swoop, active in the last weekaggressive swoop, active within the last 4 weeks < 4 weeks - standard swoop, last reported active 4-8 weeks agoaggressive swoop, last reported active 4-8 weeks ago 4-8 weeks - standard swoop, last reported active over 8 weeks agoaggressive swoop, last reported active over 8 weeks ago 8+ weeks Active(wks):standard swoop, active in the last weekaggressive swoop, active within the last 4 weeks < 4-standard swoop, last reported active 4-8 weeks agoaggressive swoop, last reported active 4-8 weeks ago 4-8-standard swoop, last reported active over 8 weeks agoaggressive swoop, last reported active over 8 weeks ago 8+

Latest Stats

Today This Year
standard swoop, no contact

Swoops

 9 2982
aggressive swoop, caused injury

Injuries

 1 331

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Recent Attack details for Australia

Magpie attack on Runner

standard swoop, no contact
22a MacArthur Rd, Spring Farm NSW 2570

Swoop

Reported by Stephanie

Magpie attack on Cyclist

standard swoop, no contact
Park Terrace "Fitzsimons" Bridge, Park Terrace, North Adelaide SA 5006

cycling north on the bike path, suddenly felt a whack on the back of my helmet! first time I've every actually been hit by a swooping magpie!

Reported by Peter

Magpie attack on Cyclist

standard swoop, no contact
9QHP+7P Bulla VIC

Swooped by a magpie during cycling. It was not really aggressive and persistent.

Reported by Winner

Magpie attack on Motorcyclist

standard swoop, no contact
225 State Route 40, Nunawading VIC 3131

Motorcyclist was repeatedly swooped whilst riding through traffic on Springvale Road.

Reported by Rick

Magpie attack on Cyclist

standard swoop, no contact
6/201 Barker St, Randwick NSW 2031

Swooped while cycling, turned the corner to ride north up the hill. Dive bombed persistently, beak making hard impact on my helmet 6 times. Chased me through the next set of traffic lights....

Reported by Lucy

Magpie attack on Cyclist

standard swoop, no contact
3 Lotus Cl, Thornlands QLD 4164

Swooped whilst cycling

Reported by E P

Magpie attack on Cyclist

standard swoop, no contact
15 A'Beckett St, Watson ACT 2602

Multiple swoops this year also swooped in 2024

Reported by Tim Arkley-Smith

Magpie attack on Cyclist

standard swoop, no contact
136 Altona St, Heidelberg West VIC 3081

First swoop of the season for me. Rather gentle magpie... called out beforehand before swooping. Didn't get close at all.

Reported by Roger L

Magpie attack on Playground User

standard swoop, no contact
37 Kareelah Vista, O'malley ACT 2606

Karaleah Vista Playground

Reported by Patrick Crile

Magpie attack on Cyclist

standard swoop, no contact
76B Hurley St, Mawson ACT 2607

Triple swooped

Reported by Patrick Crile

Magpie attack on Cyclist

standard swoop, no contact
Emerald Av/Marshall St, West Wodonga VIC 3690

Swooped while cycling

Reported by Gabrielle

Magpie attack on Cyclist

standard swoop, no contact
29 Quakers Hill Pkwy, Quakers Hill NSW 2763

Swooped twice while riding towards the traffic lights. It hit the helmet from above.

Reported by Andrew B

Magpie attack on Walker

standard swoop, no contact
35 Coonara Ave, West Pennant Hills NSW 2125

Sits in the tree opposite and also on the green fence

Reported by Ben Stevens

Magpie attack on Cyclist

standard swoop, no contact
69 Alberga St, Kaleen ACT 2617

Desultory swoops for 100m or more. Never got closer than about two metres. Could do better.

Reported by Patrick K

Magpie attack on Walker

standard swoop, no contact
83 Yarra St, Heidelberg VIC 3084

Multiple nurses swooped on the walk down the ramp to the underpass

Reported by Madison

Magpie attack on Cyclist

standard swoop, no contact
Shop 19/2 Conferta Ave, Tallawong NSW 2762

“While cycling to Subway near Tallawong Station, I was swooped by a magpie on my return trip home. The bird chased me for around 100 metres, continuing until I reached a traffic...

Reported by explanation station

Magpie attack on Person

standard swoop, no contact
1 Link Rd, Zetland NSW 2017

Two magpies attacked my DJI Mini 3 Pro while I was filming a construction site. Within a minute of starting the flight, they chased it up to 120 m. Fortunately, I managed to bring the drone...

Reported by Igor Tkatchenko

Magpie attack on Cyclist

standard swoop, no contact
Clarey St/Belle Vue Rd, Golden Square VIC 3555

Persistent fellow here - about 5 swoops over 50 metres or so. My helmet cable ties tend to force magpies to keep their distance, so this guy didn't come close to making contact, but he still...

Reported by Bruce

Magpie attack on Walker

standard swoop, no contact
14 Parkin St, Torrens ACT 2607

Multiple swoops from one magpie while walking. Made contact with head 3-4 times from the ground and above. No injuries.

Reported by Bridget R

Magpie attack on Cyclist

standard swoop, no contact
M88V+X6 Little River NSW

Swooped by two different birds on this section. Very aggressive, hit helmet.

Reported by shane b

Magpie attack on Cyclist

standard swoop, no contact
Macquarie Rd opp 190, Greystanes NSW 2145

Before entrance to Trench, magpie swooped both myself and my partner twice as we were cycling. Hitting each of our helmets each time, we cycled faster to escape its Territory. Left us after...

Reported by Christine

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