Magpies guard their nest in a radius of 100 meters.
In Australia the season began massive attacks of the males and forty people. Recorded over a thousand cases.
Every spring and autumn the males and forty begin to actively protect their nests. They see people in danger and attacked them.
In order to become the victim of the attack, not necessarily to come to the nest, forty protects it and the surrounding territory in a radius of 100 meters. Information about attacks assemble the project Magpie Alert.
According to the statistics of the website most of the attacks falls on cyclists and pedestrians.
Australians during this period are recommended to wear wide-brimmed hats, not to approach the nest with caution to pass through the territory that marked the Territory of forty.
Despite the inconvenience, hunting forty in Australia is prohibited. The inhabitants of the continent remains only to defend themselves.
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