Speaker 1: Jason Lauren on one hundred and it's that time of year.
Speaker 1: The magpies are out and they're swooping, which brings us
Speaker 1: to today's experts.
Speaker 2: The experts with Jason Lauren, your vessel specialists who specialize
Speaker 2: in very special things.
Speaker 3: This week it's legendary bird expert doctor Gronia Clearing. Let's
Speaker 3: see if she can identify this bird.
Speaker 2: Let's hear from the expert.
Speaker 4: Guys, good morning, so excited to see you in our
Speaker 4: new home here at Nova.
Speaker 5: It's very fancy, fancy.
Speaker 1: Now it's way too fancy because we always get grown
Speaker 1: in every year swooping season. We know it's grown season, Rona.
Speaker 6: The magpies are out.
Speaker 2: The magpies are out, and please people, let's not antagonize them.
Speaker 2: Let's give them a bit of space at this time
Speaker 2: of the year. It's just that daddy's protecting their babies.
Speaker 6: And so how.
Speaker 4: Do you how do you say a magpie and go,
Speaker 4: I don't want you to swoop me.
Speaker 2: So what you need to do is respect the bird,
Speaker 2: make friends with the bird if you will. So not
Speaker 2: every magpie gets to breed. We assume you know all
Speaker 2: birds breed, They all have babies.
Speaker 5: They all have nests. No, that's not true.
Speaker 2: And as magpies lose trees, as we cut down trees,
Speaker 2: actually getting a good tree to nest and becomes more limited,
Speaker 2: so the small competition. So that's why, you know, the
Speaker 2: magpies can become a little bit paranoid. You know, they've
Speaker 2: had to fight off the miners, They've had to fight
Speaker 2: off other magpies.
Speaker 5: They have their nest, they have their eggs. It's been windy,
Speaker 5: they've been blown around like hell. They've managed to survive
Speaker 5: the babies in the nest.
Speaker 6: So they think that we're going to steal it.
Speaker 1: Why are they swooping?
Speaker 2: Well, from a bird's point of view, swooping is a
Speaker 2: defense mechanism, so birds will swoop other birds, such as
Speaker 2: the miners. And at this time of the year, the
Speaker 2: magpie might spot you and think you look a bit suspicious.
Speaker 2: They might be a little bit like, what's going on
Speaker 2: with your one day? She looks a bit dodgy, and
Speaker 2: they might come down to say, hello, are you mentioned someone.
Speaker 4: Someone once told me I have to look them in
Speaker 4: the eye, but I feel like they're gonna pick.
Speaker 6: My eyes out.
Speaker 1: We were told when we were young to put fake
Speaker 1: eyes on the back of our stackats, so it looks like.
Speaker 5: They keep looking. No, because the magpie's just like what
Speaker 5: you're looking at. Why are you staring at me? What's
Speaker 5: wrong with you?
Speaker 1: If I got the fake eyes that, what will they
Speaker 1: do again? They'll fly down and fine.
Speaker 2: You've got fake eyes on the back of your smart
Speaker 2: They are so smart. They have very good memory, so
Speaker 2: they remember faces and they also remembered voices. So that's
Speaker 2: why the personal attack.
Speaker 3: If I'm walking, I get swooped one day and I
Speaker 3: walked back twenty four hours later, that magpie is gonna
Speaker 3: remember me.
Speaker 2: That magpie will remember you. But what did you do
Speaker 2: to annoy the magpie?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 6: Sorry, I've been swept just walking a straight line with
Speaker 6: my dog, Miny.
Speaker 1: My own. I also recognized you. I knew the.
Speaker 2: Show well, they could have recognized you because you gave
Speaker 2: it a dodgy look.
Speaker 5: Ditch. Did you annoy it one day? No, but you're
Speaker 5: not flight.
Speaker 6: I do hate birds though.
Speaker 5: There you go. Knew it. It was like you hate birds?
Speaker 6: Why are you scared of birds? Because I swoop you?
Speaker 6: And there's lots of kids who were going right now,
Speaker 6: who gets swooped by a magpie?
Speaker 5: Oh, what should we do the drama.
Speaker 2: First of all, something like less than ten percent of
Speaker 2: magpies actually swoop, so a very small proportion actually do it.
Speaker 1: To anyone on the time.
Speaker 5: You've been swooped, Yeah, we've all been swooped.
Speaker 3: I don't believe you might want to check your actual
Speaker 3: contact with the head with the crane.
Speaker 6: I've never been hit.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 2: The very lastly sort is that the magpie actually wants
Speaker 2: to hit your dorm head.
Speaker 5: Like the magpie wants to hit that head, you'll hurt
Speaker 5: me beak. So that usually give you.
Speaker 2: Warn if by doing little clips they claps of the
Speaker 2: beaks on a call, should we fade them?
Speaker 6: Would that make them be more our friends and not swooper?
Speaker 4: So this is what I take down the street, the
Speaker 4: ham sandwich in the air and say, take this not
Speaker 4: my head, it's not a.
Speaker 5: Seagull, it's a magpie.
Speaker 1: There's a little bit of cheese, or that lady like
Speaker 1: in home alone with the birds saying that's what is.
Speaker 2: If you are having a problem though we are getting swooped,
Speaker 2: think about providing small bit of food for the magpipe.
Speaker 5: But make sure the magpie sees you.
Speaker 2: And I note that you're giving it a little bit
Speaker 2: of food and then ite as so, stating that positive experience.
Speaker 1: Act calm, don't run at.
Speaker 5: Cam walk if you're on a bike, get off the bike.
Speaker 4: Walk.
Speaker 5: This is only a short period of time.
Speaker 6: That this actually how long sweeping season?
Speaker 2: Only really till the end of September, sometimes into October.
Speaker 1: Question, I see the funny little bike riders on Bait
Speaker 1: Road with their silly little zip ties on their helmet.
Speaker 1: Actually should kids be putting that on their bike helmets?
Speaker 2: No? I think they should learn to understand the bird
Speaker 2: more and realize that this time of the year, get
Speaker 2: off your bike, just walk slowly, give the magpipe.
Speaker 1: So you're telling me if I get off the bike
Speaker 1: and walk slowly, they want to take you.
Speaker 5: Might it would be least likely.
Speaker 2: The magpie seems to be more drawn to fast move
Speaker 2: into fast. It's like, oh what's going on here? But
Speaker 2: if you're walking slow, you're la suspicious.
Speaker 4: So I know that you love getting in the psyche
Speaker 4: of these birds and understanding them, can you? So? Can
Speaker 4: you be a magpie for a moment And I'm riding
Speaker 4: my bike down the street, it's going through the magpie's head.
Speaker 2: Role play a bit of okay do she goes, yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: hang on, hang on. I think I saw her the
Speaker 2: other day. Yeah, she gave me a bit of the eye.
Speaker 2: Hang on a sack and keep moving, keep moving, and
Speaker 2: they kind of be like you just walk on fast.
Speaker 5: But they do watch it. You know, they can't be
Speaker 5: watching what's moving around and down.
Speaker 1: Lauren looks up at you. You're the magpie. Lauren looks up,
Speaker 1: she makes eye context, she gives you a filthy look.
Speaker 1: What are you doing?
Speaker 5: You give a filthy after me babies? You're looking at
Speaker 5: my babies?
Speaker 6: Are you looking at my babies? And boom swet soap
Speaker 6: bang you do.
Speaker 4: It's like the new Chick Chick boom, But it's sweet,
Speaker 4: so bank, can you go on?
Speaker 3: I love you so much? Can you talk to the magpies?
Speaker 3: I mean, what's can we communicate with the magpie? Send
Speaker 3: them a message of love and hoping.
Speaker 5: You're mocking me, but I know it's going to be.
Speaker 1: You're an expert. We are laughing.
Speaker 6: I'm laughing a little bit.
Speaker 1: Laughing with it's temper. We're not mocking. We are not moving.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I talk to the magpie. Let the magpie see you
Speaker 2: don't you know the magpie sees you acknowledges you know
Speaker 2: that you're just passing through.
Speaker 5: So yes, I'll be like, I'll start with a bit
Speaker 5: of orige. I'll be like, do you quit? Do you quit?
Speaker 5: We're just hello and orich and now I'll go how
Speaker 5: are you going? Are you all right there? And try
Speaker 5: to go farm a bit of arsie slang that good
Speaker 5: after the actor?
Speaker 6: Do you actually are you mentally spending? Are you talking
Speaker 6: like you just go how are you going?
Speaker 2: Because they look at you and they see you and
Speaker 2: they've got a great audio memory, so you actually should
Speaker 2: toy to them. Yeah, come on, Melbourne, back me up.
Speaker 2: You people talk to your magpies as well.
Speaker 1: Come on, do you check to.
Speaker 6: The magpast talk to the animal.
Speaker 1: Just before we let you go, Lauren was looking out
Speaker 1: the window before on Clarendon Street and she noticed someone
Speaker 1: getting at it out of their car with something. In fact,
Speaker 1: Clint didn't I dramatized re enactment.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, there's a man with a glory shoulder.
Speaker 4: There's a man who just got out of his car
Speaker 4: on Clarendon Straight, right outside of First I swear I
Speaker 4: saw it with my own two eyes. I was looking
Speaker 4: out the window. Oh I tried and I couldn't get
Speaker 4: that fast en up. No, but I've got my eye.
Speaker 4: He got out of the car. He was driving a
Speaker 4: blue car. He stepped out of the driver's seat.
Speaker 5: With a bird on his shoulder.
Speaker 6: Is it someone you know or is it a coincidence?
Speaker 4: We've got a bird lady and someone with a glar
Speaker 4: walking down the street in the same day.
Speaker 5: I know something.
Speaker 1: Glass.
Speaker 5: I'm scared.
Speaker 6: I don't know what to do. I look it in
Speaker 6: the eyes. What's it's looking at me?
Speaker 1: Did you did you ever see Do you guys ever
Speaker 1: see that horror movie? Bird?
Speaker 5: Come on, it's paining for.
Speaker 6: It's a glas glass.
Speaker 1: It's a climing gla It's been a while since I've
Speaker 1: seen the.
Speaker 5: Bird grand the glass. Seriously, it's a good look.
Speaker 1: It's a good look. Gron, our bird expert joining us, wings.
Speaker 5: Up, red bird?
Speaker 6: Did you drive with that?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 6: God, you're going to put it on me.
Speaker 1: I'm going to need a vallem after that. It is
Speaker 1: just gone a thirty. We just had one of our experts, Gron,
Speaker 1: who is a bird expert specializing in Doctor Jason.
Speaker 4: One Yr Cleary, PhD, PhD in badgers, she studies.
Speaker 1: How do we know she's got in badgers? Guys? The question?
Speaker 4: She showed us her badger tatto didn't she.
Speaker 1: Got a badger atte? Where was that on a hip?
Speaker 1: So I walked into the room and she was pulling,
Speaker 1: flashing her badger her pants down.
Speaker 6: Said hey you're John Irish acton. Hey do you want
Speaker 6: to see any badger? And I went, I'm not sure.
Speaker 6: You didn't even say yes or no, just pants and
Speaker 6: showed a badger. Badger has PhD in badger.
Speaker 1: So that's my badger.
Speaker 6: Here's my badger.
Speaker 4: You.
Speaker 6: I love this so much.
Speaker 1: Magpie swooping season here in Melbourne. And she did ask this, Come.
Speaker 5: On Melbourne, back me up. You people talk to your
Speaker 5: magpieces as well.
Speaker 1: Come on, I can't believe this, but thirteen twenty four
Speaker 1: ten we have a full board of calls of people
Speaker 1: who talk to.
Speaker 4: Birds just and in west Foot's gray you talk to
Speaker 4: the birds stops them swooping.
Speaker 6: I believe it works.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, definitely, I've got to.
Speaker 6: When I called the one called Maggie, they've never suited me.
Speaker 7: Me and my party used to always leave a little
Speaker 7: bit of meat on the band for them.
Speaker 1: And to do the voices when we called them. But
Speaker 1: you know the voices.
Speaker 6: We're gonna need to hear the voices.
Speaker 7: I'll come on now, all right.
Speaker 6: I was like, cool, Maggie, Maggie.
Speaker 5: A bird caller. I'm just some bluing like it works.
Speaker 6: You're not.
Speaker 4: You are?
Speaker 5: I am a bird talker.
Speaker 7: But also the whole neighborhood kind of talks to this
Speaker 7: gang of birds.
Speaker 6: They've all lost it in Westwoods exactly.
Speaker 1: Let's let's get to Cassie in hoppers crossing. Cassie, do
Speaker 1: you talk to birds?
Speaker 6: I do.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna need a demonstration there, Cassie to them all
Speaker 1: the time? Are you working birds with birds? Four birds?
Speaker 6: Cassie? Do you speak in like human or bird?
Speaker 1: The native tongue.
Speaker 7: Speaking human but kind of like I'm talking for a baby.
Speaker 6: Okay, give us an impersonation.
Speaker 7: If I'm sitting there at the traffic lights and so
Speaker 7: Magpie will be like a little bobby, what are you doing?
Speaker 7: Can you stay off the road. I don't want to
Speaker 7: have to rescue you.
Speaker 6: Do you only talk to Magpies? Are all types of birds?
Speaker 7: I'll talk to all pipes.
Speaker 1: Uncomfortable. We should encourage more.
Speaker 4: Of the Jason Glenroy, Now, Talia, I believe you speak
Speaker 4: to birds in Greek.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I've got an Electris parrot and the rainbow lower key,
Speaker 7: and they've learnt to speak Greek in English. But we
Speaker 7: speak a lot of Greek at home, and so they've
Speaker 7: kind of picked up a few words.
Speaker 6: What do they say?
Speaker 7: So my electors parents, she'll say, like the local when
Speaker 7: you're like patting her back and like scratch beneath her wing.
Speaker 7: My rainbow low key will say like yesterday, Like my
Speaker 7: dad will whistle and say yesterday, and he'll mimic it
Speaker 7: back to yesterday, back to you.
Speaker 4: So I got them as pets. So do you speak
Speaker 4: they're to other birds in the wild and Greek.
Speaker 7: No, No, just our pet birds.
Speaker 6: Yeah, look do you have a kN avery?
Speaker 7: So they've always picked up a few words here and there.
Speaker 7: They speak a lot of English. My birds bark like
Speaker 7: my German shepherd dog.
Speaker 1: They're bilingual. Seel like a venturi. How many animals you got?
Speaker 6: They speak Greek and dog and English and English. That's impressive.
Speaker 6: You know why you're rolling your eyes? You were an
Speaker 6: Avery guy.
Speaker 1: You're a third guy. I know during puberty I opted
Speaker 1: for an Avery over a girlfriend.
Speaker 6: I don't think that you did you talk?
Speaker 1: Did you talk?
Speaker 7: Third?
Speaker 1: Funnily enough, when you go down the avery route, the
Speaker 1: girlfriend option quickly disappears. Lauren, It disappears.
Speaker 6: Doesn't You hadn't that you were an avery guy?
Speaker 1: I was a budge breeder. Did you talk budget?
Speaker 4: Did you?
Speaker 1: I had a couple until the neighbors cat got how many?
Speaker 1: I probably had ten on the goat?
Speaker 6: Did you sell them?
Speaker 2: What did you keep?
Speaker 1: A little breeding boxes? I was about to start, like fully,
Speaker 1: going into production, but the neighbors, the neighbor's cat got
Speaker 1: in there.
Speaker 6: Chase Hawkins, the budget guard. What were they called?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: I didn't name him and I didn't talk to him.
Speaker 1: To me, business completely normal.
Speaker 6: You just had breeding boxes in the backyard. How big
Speaker 6: was the avery?
Speaker 1: And so I was half the studio? Have we got
Speaker 1: another call? My dad built it for me. Oh beautiful, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he said, I'll do it right around the back of
Speaker 1: the house where no one can see. Now, in hindsight,
Speaker 1: I understand why the other kids are playing football. He
Speaker 1: was looking out for me, can I Alex?
Speaker 3: Alex?
Speaker 1: A lot of your A lot of your friends like
Speaker 1: mates with magpies.
Speaker 7: I love magpies, and I love any bird pretty much.
Speaker 4: Oh, hang on, are your friends aren't friends with magpies?
Speaker 4: Your friends are the magpies.
Speaker 6: My friends are the magpie your next level, Allie.
Speaker 7: They visit me at my home, they come into my backyard.
Speaker 7: I've sat with them in the city and had lunch
Speaker 7: with them.
Speaker 6: In the city. Do they follow your car?
Speaker 1: You might, Naomi, what's in that movie you know with
Speaker 1: the magpie the birds.
Speaker 4: That gave me nightmares? That's I think I just got
Speaker 4: at school. I think that's why I'm still scared of birds.
Speaker 1: Alex, Can you just give us an example of how
Speaker 1: you would talk to your friends?
Speaker 7: Well, first, I would get excited, So have a.
Speaker 5: Now, mister magnet big boy today.
Speaker 1: Where does the conversation go from there?
Speaker 7: They don't usually brist.
Speaker 4: And when you say you're in the light. Sometimes you
Speaker 4: have lunch with them in the city. So are you
Speaker 4: like letting them have a nibble of your salami sandwich?
Speaker 2: Or of course?
Speaker 1: I think I've seen people like you in the city.
Speaker 6: I love, Alex. I love. I don't like birds, but
Speaker 6: I like bird.
Speaker 1: People well, and they like birds.
Speaker 4: I just like Melbourne so much, I know, isn't it
Speaker 4: that was so different people in this the bird chatters,
Speaker 4: and I like the bird chatters.
Speaker 6: But they are a unique type, aren't they. They all
Speaker 6: talk baby to the birds.
Speaker 1: We'll take anyone.
Speaker 6: No, right, you're a bird guy, you.
Speaker 1: Why not talking to them?
Speaker 3: Why are you distancing yourself from the birds?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: Look at the people were just go on exactly.
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