
It’s that time of year again, that prelude to Spring… magpie swooping season. Do you really understand these birds and how to live with them and mitigate swooping?
4ZZZ's Eliot Rifkin chatted about magpies with Gisela Kaplan, Emeritus Professor in animal behaviour from the University of New England, as well as an author of some best selling books.
For a deep dive...
To visit Professor Gisela Kaplan's bio page as well as see her bibliography of her award winning books on the animal behaviour of Magpies, Orangutans, Dogs and of course Native Australian Birds. One of Gisela's many books is Cognition and Behaviour of Australian Native Birds. Here's the wikipedia on the Australian Magpie as well as Birdlife Australia's profile on our magpie.
Here's a government websites which gives tips on how to avoid being swooped and Magpie Alert! a social website which tracks aggressive magpies as well as another crowdsourced online map which tracks where the currently swooping magpies. If you'd like to delve into Magpie intelligence, read the "Nature versus nurture: the key to magpie intelligence" article.

Your 9AM Zedlines with Stella and Em

Your 8am Zedlines with Sarah, Vivek and Alec.

Your 11AM Zedlines with Cass and Hailey

Your 10AM Zedlines with Georgie and Lachlan

Your 9AM Zedlines with Cass and Hailey

Your 8AM Zedlines with Lachlan and Georgie

Your 11AM Zedlines with Jules, Clementine and Livinia

Your 10AM Zedlines with Dane, Livinia and Jules

Your 8AM Zedlines with Clementine, Jules and Dane

Your 11am Zedlines with Yuchen, Dan, and Charlie

Your 10AM Zedlines with Asha, Ava and Ethan

Your 9am Zedlines with Dan, Charlie and Yuchen image source Bernard DUPONT via flickr

Your 8am Zedlines with Ava, Asha, and Ethan image source Romain Pontida, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons.

Your 11AM Zedlines with Eden, HG, and Stella

10am zedlines with Vivek, Em, Sarah, and Alec.
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Your 9AM Zedlines with Em, Stella, and Eden

Your 8AM Zedlines with Vivek, Sarah, Em and Alec

Your 11am Zedlines with Lachlan and Hailey.

Your 10AM Zedlines with Georgie and Cass

Your 9AM Zedlines with Hailey and Lachlan.
Img Credit: VISHWANATH, Pexels
Your 8AM Zedlines with Georgie and Cass
IMG Credit: Thinboyfatter, Flickr

Your 11AM Zedlines with Jules, Dane and Clem

Your 10AM Zedlines with Clem, Zayna and Livinia

Your 9AM Zedlines with Livinia, Dane, Zayna and Jules

Your 8AM Zedlines with Dane, Clem, Jules and Zayna

Your 11AM Zedlines with Sarah, Ellen and Alannah

Your 9AM Zedlines with Sarah, Alannah and Ellen

Your 8AM Zedlines with Miko and Niamh
IMG: “National Day of Action: Stop Black Deaths In Custody - Melbourne/Naarm” by Matt Hrkac, CC BY 2.0