Woman blinded by eye-pecking magpie as divebombing beast filmed sticking beak in
Humanity is under attack from brutal magpies – and they might even hold a grudge Down Under.
An Australian woman has taken to social media to share her story about a vicious magpie attack when she was a girl that rendered her blind in one eye. Her comments come off the back of footage of an influencer being divebombed in the eye.
The flying scumbags have been causing havoc in Australia – and it seems they’ve been doing it for some time. A woman, named Kirsty, recently took to TikTok to comment on a video posted by influencer Sarah Jade.
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Horror footage showed Sarah Jade taking a stroll when a black and white bird swooped in and plunged the length of its beak into the underside of her eyeball. She said she was left “traumatised” by the incident and noted that “swooping season is in full swing”.
Astonishingly though, it seems as though she is not alone, because Kirsty has since taken to the platform to share her own horror story with the evil eye gougers. Reacting to the clip, Kirsty said: “A magpie poked my eye out… My right eye was indeed pecked out by a magpie. I know it sounds too crazy to actually believe. It was 26 years ago when I was five and I'm permanently blind in my right eye but I was lucky enough to keep my eye.”
As Kirsty speaks throughout the clip, it is impossible to see any damage to her eyeball from the incident – which occurred while she played in the back garden.
“I was out picking little daisy flowers in my backyard when my sister called out for me and said ‘watch out from behind a magpie is going to swoop you’. In doing that, I actually turned around and the magpie then proceeded to get me in the eye.”
She said it was like "popping an egg yolk" and noted that the bird “put a hole with his beak all the way to the very back of my eye”.
During the breeding season, magpies will ferociously defend their nests. According to the Guardian, Birdlife Australia’s Sean Dooley said that magpies could recognise faces and “tend to swoop the people they see as a threat”.
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