I think if you had torn the bread up it might have been better, that way the birds won't be able to fight over the big bread piece and can't pull it away from you. Also have you heard of this invention called bird seed... or just like sunflower seeds or dried corn or really any dried cheap bag of seeds without tough outer coatings bought in bulk will work and have the same benefits as tearing up the bread just cheaper and wil;l let you put in less effort. You should see if they remember you this year by coming out a week before you start feeding them again and just ringing the bell again. Let's see Pavlov MK II in action!

I did a thing I love magpies :) I used to have a big group of them live near my house, and eventually the alpha of the group would eat out of my hand and I could even pet it after we fed them

man the magpies eat from the same dish at the same time as my cats and my cats are so chill with these cocky little fuckers i smh every time is see it

I did a thing someone should give you a medal

Good bird

The magpies trained me to give them mince and use a certain whistle when I come out.

@@rickadrian2675i have to spoon feed them marmite

You be surprised, Australians are easy to train

Ours did too. 37 years later, still happening

That's nothin 😉 .. A few local DRAGONFLIES(Scarlet Perchers), trained ..a friend of mine ...to leave the pool stagnant over winter, so they could breed up! They are evil little red buggers!.as he had to put up with all the mozzies of course 😖. They're Evil I tell you!😈 😄 .. Though he got great video footage of them morphing(here on KZfaq today) 😎 AF 💡 They're now probably being eaten by the local MAGPIES 😉 🤣😁

EVERYONE BOW BEFORE YOUR LORD *_MAGPIE MAN_*

This idea was trending on tumblr like a year ago

Magpies first. Spice next. “He who controls the spice controls the universe.”

Lol

Magpies are the real boss

They love cooked rice, and they also go crazy over mealy worms. Will land on your hand to eat mealy worms.

they shouldn't eat mince. apparently it can sit in the bottom of their beak and cause it to rot. not hating, just passing on info I have received

@@timjohnun4297 that's correct, and also on top of that, raw mince on its own lacks calcium and leaves their bones and beaks brittle, deformed and easily breakable, especially in the babies of the mince fed magpies. You can however get supplement powders from pet stores and online that you can mix with the mince to counter the damage, or buy some crickets or mealyworms from a pet store for them. Bread is also really bad for magpies. One slice is the equivalent of a human eating 3 meat pies....they eat insects and dead or small animals (like mice)....not carbs

I think the amount of mince must make a difference. Mum has been feeding local magpies a little bit of mince most days for a few magpie generations. We do now switch to mealy worms during baby season.

@@tomorrow4eva nope. Just likely you didn't see the damage done. "A few generations" is what...3 yrs. Not that long. Just don't do it. It's bad for them

He who controls the magpies controls Australia. He who controls australians can can serioulsy buttf**k anyone, and thus, controls the world.

Noahs go make fortnite videos

Noah, You don’t know the power of the magpie.

Noah D. He ain’t wrong

I want/need that super power

Humans are the most intelligent species on Planet Earth and we also get knocked down and get beaten up while on the ground.

it's playing with the string!!! i've seen crows do the same thing with low-hanging willow branches, hanging by their claws and swinging back and forth. it's super cute.

My magpies are so smart the baby magpies scream and slip on leaves

@@Ucatty2 humans are the smartest animal but we fucking destroy our own planet for resources.

This magpie looks like a juvenile and is making the call of one. At a certain age, the parents start attacking the juvenile for them to move off and find their own territory before the next chicks are hatched.

I agree, time to buy a slingshot or a pneumatic handgun

Monke

@@Makujah_ yeah what this guy said but use shrooms as the ammo for the slingshot. really humble them.

Don't forget, you're smarter than them, just get a clicker and teach them who's boss with the only 2 things birds respect: intelligence and food.

@@Diabandana September is spring Weird

The magpie legion is one to be feared I hear they have their eyes set on the territory of the pigeon hoard

They have my left eye

Now the magpies are aiming for the lorikeet hive to stop them from stealing their food

@@cryingseal5307 peckity hoppity your eye is their property

birdcenaries

I feel like you might just be creating an arms race. How long until the bullies have lorikeets with slingshots. Also, sorry about the bullies.

Michael Hartleroad the trick is to go overkill right at the start. Ravens are big, smart as crows, so they’ll mob enemy birds, and they’re in America, so they’ll fight dirty

Strap frickin' laser beams to their heads!!

@@Eatongee Fuck yeah!

Fuck yes EXCALIBUR

They sound awesome. We have 2 magpies in our neighbourhood. I live in a unit in urban sprawl, but they come ever morning and every evening. The male comes into the unit, runs into the kitchen and to the fridge, where he knows we keep his food. On the way out, he becomes a vacuum cleaner and pecks up a crumb or 2 off the kitchen flor that has gotten missed after sweeping. He then makes a beeline for the balcony door where his mate waits, and then they get more of a feed before they fly off

Bread isn't particularly good for birds

@@RonaldoTheGoat1234 Sorry, I know seed bread is not bread, its like a seed brick, bread is a loose description. I think you think I meant multi grain bread?

they are extremely noisy too lol

cockatoo* but yeah. The reason theyd be aggressive with the cockies is coz they a fuckin nuisance to smaller birds. They'll straight harass them through the wire just for fun if you have an aviary

7 year-old me, back in the 80s when our family visited Australia, would have appreciated to know this beforehand. 😂 My parents thought it would make lovely pictures when they could buy some birdfeed in a wildlife park or zoo for us kids to feed the lorikeets. Damn, it hurt! Needless to say that you could only see anxiously screaming children under a flock of angry lorikeets. 😭😂 A couple of years ago Angela Merkel was visiting some zoo here in Germany and they made her feed the lorikeets. I'm convinced they did this on purpose. 😈 The pictures looked almost like those of me and my sister...😂😂😂

Epic!

same

Sounds like a cunning plan black adder! 😁

1k like lez goo

I'm Australian and I've never been swooped. And I have 3 couples of magpies on my street.

the man with a plan

Not mince. It gets stuck in their beak and rots a hole. Dry cat food.

Parrots will also eat meat!

yep i used to feed my magpies mince meat, they always loved it and were super healthy -- you have to soak it first though

Joshie Allen genius

Vid of the magpies or didn't happen

yeah that illegal i'm sorry

Abhinav p you are an idiot

Woa

I M KING OF MAGPIES

I think the magpies in our yard did something similar, I saw some wire which the magpies seemed interested in for nest material, so I tried to talk them out of using it, I turn around & it's following me. Then days later more wire shows up in the yard. I have to pick it up cos of the lawnmower but they still deliver it. Birds are strange & fascinating to watch.

James Hudson that’s really cool !

Crows are awesome. Someone gave my dad a crow with an injured wing. So we nursed him back to health. He would protect our house from strangers. He became known as the best guard pet n our area.

I've heard of crows or magpies actually stealing jewellery and bringing them to someone.

* Ah . . . * Noch jemand, der die wilder Natur der Grossstädte schätzt und für deren Erhaltung sorgt. * Wie aufmerksam.

Lol

Epic lol

Uh, how about the suggestion of NOT FEEDING BIRDS FKN BREAD SO REGULARLY, SO MUCH. It's incredibly unhealthy, unnatural and awful for their digestion. Selfish and disgusting person

@@chystal9161 ok

Chystal Aren’t you helpful.

@@chystal9161 k boomer

Chystal bruh

"How to make money from being a youtuber 2018"

@@Ididathing that's 2019 This year was the year of the boxing match, oh and swearing so much you get sponsored by a mobile video game

I am actually going to try and teach them to steal

@Big Duck yeh I can imagine competing with crows would make you harden up

its the magpie mafia

The Australians also fought a war against emus... and lost.

Bahahahaha.

@@The_Forge_Master There were no winners or losers in the Great Australian Birds Wars, the emus preferred to wage guerilla style warfare with running attacks, which were mostly ineffective due to the magpies state of high alert while in the enemies territory (on the ground) and the emus had no answer to the aerial warfare the magpies waged with the incessant swooping and harrying style of attacks, which in reality annoyed the emus more than anything, the futility of the fighting was soon realised by both sides and a mutual agreement was reached, which turned out to be of benefit to all concerned, the emus no longer kicked the shite out of the fledgling magpies learning to fly and the magpies ceased leading the ever hungry goannas to emu nesting sites to feast upon the emu eggs therein.

Oh gods, your giving them ideas... How could you *says while holding vicious cats, birds, snakes, and all sorts of animals* say something so pretentious. I mean *raises snek boi* how can these babies hurt you? Reality: Uhm... I... I think... Cause... (Lived entire childhood surrounded by animals, but they always either end up dead, escaping, or dead)

@Smileyrie James you forgot the drop bears!!! They are the real killers in the bush!!

It is. I have to admit, though we are slaves to our backyard birds. They call and we come command

Color Cloud lorikeets are beautiful, though there messy pets because of there honey diet

RIGHT?? ME TOO 🤣🤣

@@foxtrot2048 a person can barely hear themselves talk in our main street at dusk due to the cacophony of sound from the wild Lorikeets that reside overnight in a couple of the trees there, the noise is tremendously loud.

Where I live, the lorikeets are quiet compared to the cockatoos.

foxtrot yeah our world surprises people sometimes, some probably just guess the tame ones are made in a laboratory

I don't get this, I see this phrase a lot, what the hell does it mean?

@@janellehoney-badger6525 it's just a meme, i thought it was funny.

🤣

But where did the meme originate

Stefano the comment section of a video

Several years ago The University of Washington Seattle, WA., did an interesting study on facial recognition among corvids. It is posted here on KZfaq, somewhere.

servicarrider Australian Magpies are not corvids, however. It’s the Eurasian Magpie that belongs to the corvid family.

I mean, not fully redundant - they could hear the bell even if they didn't happen to be looking in the direction of his house, so it definitely helped to get them to feeding time quicker and from anywhere within earshot

Australian magpies are not corvids but have a reputation for recognising people and holding grudges for *many* years. Don't piss one off because they never forget it or your face.

Wasn't really redundant when the bell became the secret gang sign for grub. Gave them the advantage over the dumber birds.

Quiet*

Quiet*

Quiet*

Quiet*

Quiet*

Good stuff! Cheers!

Never feed a magpie bread. So bad for them.

Hello...we feed our magpies cheese and a couple of them eat out of our hands and one got stuck in the house my bro caught it and held it. it was amazing

I LOVE this video! Thank you! Definitely sharing

they like meat

I thought that, too, but I assumed that it was my imagination.

@@eugenetswong nah, definitely getting fatter, try more protein rich foods rather than carbs, they'll excrete the excess. Try cutting up some chicken or ham into smallish chunks (~1inch), don't worry if they seem a bit large, the magpies will break them up to eat them. They also probably need a calcium source but I don't think cheese or milk are safe for them, so maybe add some calcium chloride to the meat occasionally.

No joke ive been feeding magpies in a similar way before September and they get real fat on bread XD

@@mikeunleashed1 So stop feeding them unnatural things... so bad for them. Even the guy in the video said he switched to seeds and fruits.

@@mikeunleashed1 l bet they don't attack you though. We used to feed they with roo mince.and they'd get super friendly. I could walk right underneath their nest and they'd just dive down and land at my feet.magpies are intelligent and have really parternal way about them. If they know your not a threat they are much easier to get along with. I really got to love having them around. I used to look forward to feeding them and watching them at play.

You have budgerigars in your garden, lucky

@@GeckoTech_Engineer we have the British rose ringed parakeet or some people call them the Twickenham parakeet because they are abundant around the Kingston and Twickenham area.

@@Phoenixash-delfuego well that’s no less lucky

@@GeckoTech_Engineer 😊

@amelia korona i just saw a vid of a girl who feels like a disney princess because of her friendship with a wild bird

*prince

Except instead of harmless animals he summons carnivorous demon spiders, screeching birds, hungry evil cats, and surprisingly dosile house lizards.

But what about his parents? The mouse doesn’t like when protagonists have living parents.

*proceeds to dink water out of a dirty cup from the sink*

Dude just I read this I saw this happen during the video lol

Nice

That's because the magpies swoop when Ur not looking. And they normally go for the head. So as long as you've got Ur eyes on the bird it shouldn't swoop.

Magpies actually remember faces, so if you're feeding them they'll remember the kindness and not feel threatened by you and swoop :) They'll also introduce you to their young and then they'll remember your face and not see you as a threat! Very intelligent birds

@@gruche Yeah, they're great. I sometimes go out my backyard and I'll see like 5 of them just land on my fence and start warbling at me. It's rad.

@@hopeblue755 sound slike a good way to get my eyes pecked out

Looks like you've been MAGGIED!

Hilarious!! Got me thinking, there's a few too many one legged seagulls around our local beach fish n chip shop. Would they chew their own leg off for a few extra chips??

I was going to like but I couldn't be the one to ruin that perfect number

@@shadrach5681 fool's you have clearly never encountered the mighty cassowary

CheeseLord uh, you just show up with insults? We aren't insulting anyone. Get lost.

@@shadrach5681 bruh calm down m8 it's a joke

CheeseLord I couldn't tell. It just looked like you called us fools to me. I did look up the cassowary, that creature thing dinosaur bird looks like it's from a nightmare! Fuck Australia, even birds can be deadly. Y'all have deadly everything!!

I can safely say the Canadian goose is the Magpie of Canada

kuro neko that’s me but with cockatoos

Winston The Choco Labrador cool! like the white ones?

Nice!

OsirisCrafter yeah! i was actually hand feeding one the other day, they’re very sweet once you gain trust

They aren't here anymore rest their souls

Besides the bird shit

There are magpies in Colorado, my friend tames ravens and magpies and they follow her to school sometimes it’s so cool

Magpies in USA and Europe are different. They are of the familie corvidae known voor their intelligence. Indeed members of this family can be trained when they are young. Great stuff. However you have to pay attention to the seasonal change in their behavior in spring you have to keep them in side. This is the time when in the wild the youngsters leave their folk/murder and go out to find mates. Magpies in Australia are not related they are very aggressive and highly territorial when defending their nests.

I have it it’s normal in Australia me and my family saved a kookaburra we feed the lorikeets fruits or there new favourite treat honey on bread and I chuck some leftover meat because magpies are also carnivores and it’s great because the other birds don’t like meat so the magpies can eat as much as they want

omg, this all makes sense now. how tf did i not notice that

what was his logo before this video

Blue Bone a magpie

i thought he was on gum

omg i just watched the crocs video

Emus aren't scary but they know how to fight a war. Emus would win against every single nation of the earth combined.

Bin chickens.

Your comment is funny but I don't think you know what PTSD is. Made me smile anyway so who am I to complain.

Angry CentrelinkRecipient you know what is though? goddamn cassowaries

rigth they lost twice

Anson Hu But you’ll be a good magpie. At first when you hatched, you have little memory of your passed life. You watch you farther swoop and attack cyclists, and sadness will stab your heart, even if you know it’s to protect you. You grow up a normal bird. When you find a mate, you ask them to fly to Germany with you.. you have a mastermind plan. You fly to Germany, the flight tiring your wings. You find a time machine and step into it. One day you see Hitler passing by, and attack him. You alter the course of history, wars ending, less people die. You killed hitler. People all around the world praise the ‘miricale magpie’ and I’m to lazy to write more I’m tireed

@@expertfrenchtoast3480 *Bruh*

"That Time I was Reincarnated as a Magpie"

Me too, I would attack my neighbor until she can't see anymore, lol

@@annkus3 😂

not for long

FunkyPlayz *Laughs in 130+k*

@@noodle714 251k and growing so i guess he finally got the algorithm to notice him!

I agree

Look up PolarSaurusRex

thanks carlos

@@Ididathing absolutely what he said, just watching everything you have at the end of your videos. They are all amazing.

@@Ididathing you'll be at a million in no time, your videos are top dollar

I like the ominous "... so far..."

@@yoRockstardude134 that fkn KOOLYBURRA WILL EAT U 4:41

Wow! That's awesome! Nature's alarm clock 😉

I have Magpies that do the same, they wake me between 7 and 7:15 every morning, without fail.

I have cockatiels who scream teach me

So essentially the crows trained you. Clever birds...

Spooky 😆

Birdgeoisie

Why? Cockatoo’s are common as fuck

@@melongum2825 its amazing until you have thousands of the fuckers screaming their heads off at 7am every single bloody morning flying over your house. Best looking cockatoo would have to be either the Palm cockatoo or the Red tailed black cockatoo imo

@@jasonphillips3020 we get white tailed black cockatoos around our pine trees at a specific time of the year, generally there is about 10-40 just hanging around eating the seeds from the pine cones

@@jasonphillips3020 not to mention when the pricks chew your house up.

@@jasonphillips3020 leaves all over the place because they systematically tear up every single gum tree in the area

you guys were bird tamers

Yeah, this as*hole needs to feed birds a *proper, natural, healthy diet* Not processed, completely unnatural and unhealthy bread, SO OFTEN. It's honestly disgusting he was so selfish he didn't even bother to think of that.

@@chystal9161 lol I bet you're anti Vax

@@millwalllover3633 no, where'd you pull that out of? I'm just not re.tard.ed. If I was going to regualry feed birds in my backyard I'd get proper food. Same with any other breed of animal, if you feed it, it's your responsibility to feed them the right food.

@@chystal9161 birds can eat bread

5. Australian magpies aren't actually magpies (no really, they aren't)

Thallan then what are they

@@mgain7944 don't remember, but they aren't corvids like the european magpie that they are named after, they're in a different family

@@thallan They are a member of the "artamidae" family but both magpies and "australian magpies" are members of the "passerine" - order. This is however as broad as saying that homo sapiens and chimpanzees are both of the pimate order.

@@mgain7944 Artamidaes like woodswallows and currawongs :)

Pit bull Parrot 🦜

@@viaja3569 macaws are the true pitbull parrots

@@MrPink-xv5el haha yes I was thinking of the white cockatoos when I wrote that. Probably because I’ve experienced one of them bite my finger after enticing me with a cute come hither look 🥴

Parrots in general are bolt cutters with wings.

@@r0cketplumber totally 💯% haha

Crikey

If you can train them they arent that bad, ive been doing it for a while

Meritedkat you Must have been bored a lot right?

@@squindle. you tamed the beasts?

To both of you, i have these 3 maggies come to me at school and they have names (my friends chose these) Wario, a sorta shy male, Waluigi, the friendlinest one she kets me boop her snoot and finally, Shy Guy, he is the most shy but will still hand feed.

Deadly animals aren't so deadly when you grew up know how to behave around them. Magpies are special in that the only way to to stop them specifically targeting you is with bribery. As they recognise faces and voices it will usually be only the friendly humans they don't target. I keep a nut bar when cycling to bribe magpies along my routes

Magpies have caused death and major injuries. They can take out eyes and will cause sever damage to face and head if they are the mean sort. I don't fear what I call "Clackers" who swoop beside your head and clack their beak to scare you but I have been given a concussion by one who rammed into my helmet and now cannot ride my bike because one on my route started going for my cheek. Pedestrians have been chased into traffic by magpies and deaths have happened. You also can't always bribe them once they've started protecting their nests (I had one that refused to take food from me) and they are much more likely to attack you than a spider or snake. A spider or snake will run away unless you corner it, a magpie will chase you for 400+ metres around its nest to ensure its eggs and babies are safe.

We had a bike rider last week die after a magpie chased him and he hit a fence and broke his neck,the magpie is out on bail.

A friend of mine got a magpie stuck in his forehead when he was a child. Think about that for a second.

umm excuse me.. MAGPIES ARE THE DEADLIEST ANIMALS OF THEM ALL

once you befriend them they will follow you for a while when you're in there turf its really weird to be walking next to two magpies that are hopping along next to me, then they all of a sudden fly off to swoop some random fucker before coming back to hop next to me

The first half was wholesome, the last part was a "what the fuck" moment.

@Connor Smith Yep, they had us alright.

I have a parrot and can confirm about the "love bites" thing they do. They just take your finger or whatever and just hold it in their beak. Birds, at least parrots, like to feel things with their tongues and use it like a finger to get a sense for things. A bird beaking but not biting you is a sign of trust. Also, parrots poop on average of once ever 8 minutes and do not possess the muscles to hold their bowels, it comes out when it comes out, so they just kinda shit all the time, it's not a deliberate act. I'd bet ravens are similar.

@@starhammer5247 oh boy you're gonna love the next two decades. if that's how you react to a bird eating a mouse, I'd bet 500$ you off yourself before 2030

@@jackmiller8851, I wasn't talking about my reaction to the mice being torn apart, I've seen plenty of dead animals and their innards, I'm talking about the fact that the guy had a very wholesome story about him and his bird then out of nowhere starts talking about how it massacred the dead mouse and tore it apart including a vivid description of how it did it. So there's no need to be a dick about it.

😂😂😂😂😂

This is pretty much the same for any member of the Corvid family. I'd love to have one as a pet.

Hi, just want to point out that I have a butcher bird that lives in my yard. He gets along with me great, and my magpies and pigeons seem to be friends with him. All of my birds, magpies and butcher bird included, let me pat them, so it is possible for you to befriend butcher birds. You just need mince. a fuck ton of mince.

@@TeaWithSin yeah I get on well with the butcher birds, but they tend to prefer to take mince thrown in the air. They will come for a feed if I call them, but I have never been able to touch one cheers.

my grandma has befriended generations of butcher birds in her house for years. Butcher birds have beautiful calls

@@justinm1721 when I said they won't befriend you I meant they won't land on you or take food from your hand. Well at least the ones I know won't. If I stand on the deck and call out "butcher" they will come for a feed but they generally catch small bits of meat on the fly. One other thing, I always mix insectivore with any mince I feed butchers and magpies especially when they have young so they get the right balanced diet, don't want to muck them up. This year I have nursed a wattle bird that got washed out of it's nest at about 5 days old. fed him insectivore mixed with honey till his feathers came in and he could fly. tried to re introduce him to his parents by hanging him in a basket under their nest, but they wouldn't have a bar of him!. he lives outside and drops over for a feed and will sit on my shoulder and takes honey from a teaspoon and blobs of insectivore mixed with honey. His parents chase him off, eventually I think he will find a mate and I won't see him anymore. He thinks my bull Arab dog is his sibling and will tease him and sometimes even lands on him and pecks at his fur. the dog loves him and tries to protect him from his parents and they play chasing in the yard it's very funny to watch!.

Rainbow lorikeet

I once got three wild geese to eat out of the palm of my hand

^w^

@@commandercody2980 holy moly I have the highest respect, that’s some major luck & skill

@@cornedbread3669 I mean I just sat near a bunch of geese with some corn in my hand.

@@commandercody2980 oh yeah true, guess I’m just excited by the concept since I’ve never dealt with geese, only ducks.