Magpies have been terrorising visitors by stealing their food and attacking people - even children- in Gungahlin, Canberra, that authorities have begun culling the birds
According to ACT Parks and Conservation director Daniel Iglesias, between 25 and 30 magpies lived near Yerrabi Pond in Gungahlin, with some being trapped by rangers and euthanised on Thursday.
Speaking to ABC News, Mr Iglesias said the culling is needed because the number of incidents involving the swooping birds has dramatically increased.
'We have one story, where a magpie stood on a child's head, leant over the child's head, put it's beak in its mouth to get food out of its mouth,' Mr Iglesias told ABC News.
'We've had other incidents where there have been other near-misses with eyes.'
Comment: Another case of natural gases leaking from deep below, as Earth continues to 'open up'. A small selection of outgassing reported on sott.net include:
- Hundreds of methane plumes erupting along US Atlantic coast
- Largest methane seep in the world found off the eastern coast of US
- Methane gas seeping out of the ground in China
- Ontario methane gas leak thought to be natural - called 'extremely rare occurance'
- Heat Wave or Outgassing? Thousands of Dead Fish in Minnesota Lakes
Perhaps such increased outgassing is a contributory factor to the significant increase of fish die off's, strange migratory behaviour of marine life, oxygen-depleted 'dead zones', wildfires and explosions we are witnessing?