When Birds run into you

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This was called on camera MANI.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
When birds attack wage in It was a shocking moment
when a bird slammed into a New Zealand reporter. It
was caught on camera Parol Jessica as a journalist, and
she shared this clip on Instagram of herself reporting in
the CBD of Auckland doing a thing. Next minute, bird
comes flying past straight into a have a listen, tigins.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
Yeah, yeah, oh my god, my eyes. Yeah, am I attacked?

Speaker 2 (00:51):
No, I think it's just come through and just whacked.
But this happens with birds, whether they fly into your
cars windows you, I mean, birds attack. We know that
people of gosh, Maggie's. It's nothing worse if you plovers. Yeah,
my son got We were in the park ones when
he was a lot younger, and minor bird swooped him
past him and got him right on the side of

(01:12):
the cheek. Oh he was hysterical. I'm hysterical. No one
helps you though, because they start laughing at you. Because
I do understand to other people it's quite funny while
you're frantically running, flapping your arms around in the air
trying to get.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Rid of your bird.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Sure, yeah, but his little face actually the picture came
up not long ago, and I said him, do you
remember the day that miner got you in the park.
He's like mum because he's like running for his slow
mose running to me. I'm running to him, trying to
stay from this bird smack him straight in the face.
It's terrible.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah, Ziptie helmet sminths when you need him much, Joe,
when is a bird running to you?

Speaker 4 (01:42):
Cam?

Speaker 5 (01:43):
But it's a bit embarrassing. Actually, I came across a
big wedge child eagle on the farm and I sort
of surprised him. And they're really slow to take off.
I don't know everyone knows is about wedgies, but because
of their size, they take a long while to take off.
And I sort of came over the hill and surprised him.
And I'm not sure who is more surprised him or me,

(02:03):
But as he was taking off, he clipped me with
the corner of his wing. It was pretty surreal.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Actually, luckily you didn't get his claws in your face.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 5 (02:12):
I know they don't attack humans. They're just so magnificent
and I'm always trying to get close to them. But
I didn't really anticipate getting quite that close.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
No, no, gosh, you both shocked each other.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah, you want one of those leather gloves so they
can rest on your hands.

Speaker 6 (02:24):
Some of them do.

Speaker 5 (02:25):
Yeah, well, wouldn't that be cool? Hobby is already questioning
his life choices with me. With cows and horses, I
really don't need to add birds into.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Have you been at Riley's rainforest retreat, Barnie, Yeah, yeah,
I've held the eagles up there. You put on those
big leather gloves, they rest on your hands and.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
They okay, oh, they're absolutely magnificent. Some beautiful videos doing
the rounds at the moment. There was one where a
guy actually helped an eagle that was trapped and the
eagle actually came back, made a nest, and it's like
very intelligent birds.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
So if you're doing the rounds on the videos like this,
check out some of the amazing things that people have
had encounters with them.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah, go to somewhere like Riley's in the scenes, Sharon's
on the line, Sharon, when when's the bird running to you?

Speaker 6 (03:10):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (03:10):
My on crutches coming into my dad's house, right, And
he used to rescue glass and hand raise them and
if they were good, they got let let go back
into the wild, blah blah blah.

Speaker 6 (03:24):
But this one didn't get well enough to go back
to the wild, right, and it didn't particularly like me.
So I'm on crutches, hobbling in trying to open the door.
As if you've been on crutches, you know how it goes.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah, that's my son right now.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
And all I hear is this and wings, and then
all I can see is ceiling.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
Oh, it took it out.

Speaker 4 (03:48):
It took me out crutches. It hit me full on,
just just below the chin in the chest and unless
I don't know what I ever did to that bird,
But it never liked me. Couldn't go anywhere in the house.
If it was out, it would chase me, it would

(04:09):
fly at me. And you know, I'm the nice I
love animals, sure, and I could never work it out.
I should. I've been nice to it all. It's nice
that it's been here.

Speaker 5 (04:19):
Right.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Well, here's the thing. You know, you probably need to
sit down and have a good chat and tell how
you feel.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
I thought about something, especially when you're lying on the
on the ground crutches.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
You're already you're already injured.

Speaker 4 (04:34):
The bird takes you out like a turtle stuck on
its back.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Made God, they can be vicious, they turn.

Speaker 4 (04:44):
I don't have much luck with birds, right, Okay, you
think I get it.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
I get it.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
They're hard, they're hard to kind of work with.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
Whack that video up on the riven nine four nine Mary,
Poor girl,