What is a magpie thinking?
Has a list. Remembers faces. Spring is coming.
The face recognition is real and it has been tested properly. Australian magpies can distinguish individual human faces and hold that recognition for years, which is why one household gets swooped every September and the neighbours walk past untouched.
It also means the bird is not being random. It is defending a nest for about six weeks, it has decided you specifically are the problem, and it is running a list it has been keeping since the last time you gave it a reason.
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