A grey Butcher Bird is attacking people in North Buderim. It is going for their faces. It scored me with a nose hit today. Is this common behaviour for these birds?
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Not relevant and I apologise. But I can’t resist:
Some years ago, a Pied Butcherbird ‘shouted’ me lunch at the Colmslie Hotel (Morningside, Brisbane). My wife got out of the car at the hotel entrance, and I then parked the car. Walking back, and Butch attacked from behind and drew blood. (Had a young one in the garden.) Mate joined in, but once I knew they were there they couldn’t lay a beak on me. (But nor could I lay a fist on them!)
When I came to pay for our meal, the hotel insisted that they would not accept any payment. They knew the baby butcherbird was in garden and that the parents sometimes attacked, but they didn’t want to chase the baby.
Cheers
Syd
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This behaviour is not at all uncommon in breeding season with grey butcher birds and especially when they have unfledged young. Additionally they often seem to react more violently to cyclists than to people on foot.
Ian