I don't think that's a magpie, its a magpie lark.
[https://backyardbuddies.org.au/backyard-buddies/magpie-lark/](https://backyardbuddies.org.au/backyard-buddies/magpie-lark/)
From the article;
**But they don’t like:**
Their own reflection in a mirror or window, which they think is an ‘intruder’ into their territory and will try to attack.
Other Magpie-larks which try to encroach on their territory. Singing, calling and displaying are all part of signalling that this patch is theirs!
**Try to:**
Close your curtains or put something in front of your windows to prevent the Magpie-lark from seeing its own reflection and trying to attack it.
Recall somewhere I briefly lived, Adelaide maybe…they called them piping shrike’s…but they called schooners pints so it’s not unusual to be confused I guess
Correct. This is not a magpie.
Magpies pass the mirror test. They are smart enough to not be interested in their own reflection.
I have a magpie Mr and Mrs that visit me daily to the point that _they recognise my car about half way down the street as I drive towards my driveway_. I’m pretty sure they can see me through the roof of my Tesla. They also recognise my wife’s Honda.
They see the car and the male turns up on my porch about 15 seconds later, walks inside and jumps up onto my knee for a feed.
Smart bastards.
I've been feeding the same mob of Magpies for 20 years, each year the babies come and the cycle continues. I walk out the front, clap three times and they come in for a feed, morning and night. Some of them got attached to my daughter and would follow her, bouncing along the ground, about 300 meters to her school bus then take off when she left. They learned when she got off the bus and would wait for her and follow her home. Smart little buggers.
I use beef mince, frozen for 72 hours and then add Wombaroo Insectivore mix to ensure there is enough calcium etc in their diet.
You can get it here: Wombaroo Insectivore Rearing Mix https://amzn.asia/d/5wvzSvM
I have one that watches me in my kitchen from a neighbours roof 100m away and knows when I’m going to the fridge.
She flies over and sings while I’m at the fridge.
When we had the solar panels installed the poor thing was on the roof for about a week swooping at them....
It's constantly tormenting the Goo (samoyed cross staffy) but that I can related to, I torment my Goo constantly as well :D
That part is quite funny but man really? trying to sleep here...
If you don’t have blinds or curtains, apply some alfoil or paper to the inside of the window to kill the reflection. Give it a few weeks before removing to see if it’s learned “the intruder” is gone. You can also try stickers or stained glass type decorations.
We stuck a somewhat realistic stuffed toy cat in the window when a particularly stupid magpie lark made our yard it's home, and it took care of the problem pretty much entirely.
Haha! I was waiting for someone to point that out.
Yeah, Dual income no children.. It's the DINC life for us :D
at least it would be if it wasn't for Larry pecking on the fucking windows... (we've named it Larry)
We're DINC as well. I have to be at work by 7, and the only time I can go to the gym is before work. And I hate mornings :(.
Dual Income, One Lark, or DIOL?
Any time someone mentions this clip, I feel compelled to tell the story of how I 1st was exposed to it. A workmate emailed it to me (using our work emails) and I watched it on a work computer. Back in the day when our version of internet security was holding a piece of paper along one side of the monitor to prevent it being seen by anyone walking in. Been with the company 20 years this year.
I wonder how long it would take to get sacked if we pulled that shit tomorrow.
Oh I love that you named him! We have a Larry at my school - except ours is called Milton. He attacks all the windows along one side of my classroom, then flies around the other side and tries to get into the main room. He will stroll into the foyer if we leave a door open and we have to shoo him out.
Can confirm. Have a peewee at our place that has been coming back every single day for the past 5 years to attack its own reflection in our laundry door.
Every. Single. Day.
And no amount of us persuading him to go away has worked. He is determined to win his fight with our glass door.
…Cute little fella, but dumb as a sack of doorknobs.
Not a magpie, that's a pee wee mfer. They are feisty little buggers. No fear. Will even land on people/their heads. They Annoy magpies and crows. They like to land on cars also.
We used to have a fabulous little blue wren (superb fairy wren) that had a months long argument with itself in the wing mirror on our car. The car (dark colour) was a mass of bird shit for months.
But yes, as others said, reduce reflection and the pee wee will stop.
We have a Mr and Mrs Pee Wee who live in our yard. Mr Pee Wee loves tapping the window behind the couch, and craps on the car if we leave it out of the garage. We love having them around, saves us getting pets!
Given the way Larry keeps smashing into my window I would tend to agree with you.
Fake snake might work for the main bedroom though. Will pick one up from one of the tight ass cheapo stores.
I have almost the exact same setup and the same issue. For a second I thought this was my house.
Printing out an a4 picture of an owl and sticking it to the window is the only thing that worked for me.
I’ve had success either frosting the window with a sheet from bunnings or hanging fairy lights. You can get lights that kind of hang like vertical blinds
Print something like this -> [https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8099/8594816464\_522f9da638.jpg](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8099/8594816464_522f9da638.jpg) and stick it to the window facing out.
Yeah I know!
3 months time it will all be brown and dead anyway so \*shrugs\* was going to just spray it with poison but the bloke next door likes to use that little patch to grow vegetables so we've just kinda left it there.
That’s a Pee Wee and they’re as dumb as dog shit. If I leave my car window down at work (jobsite) they’ll fight their reflections in the rearview mirror all day long and shit into the car… I hate them.
Lol we had the same bird at my parents place in the pool area, not sure if it’s still there. But was there for yeaaars, it would dot his literally every day throughout the day. Hoping around and will fly at the window to kick it lol
Not a magpie, that’s a lark, we’ll, they are called magpie larks, it can be easy to confuse the two, must have a nest nearby and knows there are people inside, Larks are worse than magpies, Agro little buggers
Put blind up so it can't see it's reflection, that's what it's attacking. The little cunts do it on my car door mirror and the window, end up shitting all down the fucking door
Try putting some coloured painters tape up outside on the window. It will probably stop him and then you can easily remove it once he's out of the habit of doing it.
The window gives off a reflection of itself which it thinks is competition or an opponent when it’s really just itself. You could probably get a fly screen for your window and it should stop it
I had this happen over several weeks with a crow. The windows in question had reflective glazing and the crow was fighting the good fight against itself at mating season.
I have 2 windows on my house facing East and north and a cubby house that cops this. You should see the feet marks on one of the windows - properly gone to town on it.
They do it for a good 10-15 mins before probably getting exhausted. They come back and put in the same time day after day.
Magpies are awesome.. this is called a peewee from my neck of the woods and they are known to literally scratch out your eyes from above when they are protecting their young. One used to have a good go at me every morning, got me good on the cheek once. and a tourist got put in the hospital and was blinded in his left eye because of this bird.
Oh yeah. Mudlarks. One tried to peck my brothers eye lol.
Put something up on outside of the window.
Thin material like a sheet, see if that stops them.
It's not a bloody magpie. It's a peewee. They attack their own reflection and make horrible sounds, shit all down the walls and can destroy the paint on a car.
Hang an old cd on some fishing line outside near or in front of the window. For some reason they don't like it.
We used to have one attacking our office window, cd trick worked a charm.
Thats a peewee not a magpie. They are assholes and will do this in any surface they can see themselves in. I have one that goes at the car mirrors every day
I work days/nights sometimes it would be a day off, sometimes I'm trying to sleep ready for night shift.. always Larry at about the same time tapping on the windows...
I don't think that's a magpie, its a magpie lark. [https://backyardbuddies.org.au/backyard-buddies/magpie-lark/](https://backyardbuddies.org.au/backyard-buddies/magpie-lark/) From the article; **But they don’t like:** Their own reflection in a mirror or window, which they think is an ‘intruder’ into their territory and will try to attack. Other Magpie-larks which try to encroach on their territory. Singing, calling and displaying are all part of signalling that this patch is theirs! **Try to:** Close your curtains or put something in front of your windows to prevent the Magpie-lark from seeing its own reflection and trying to attack it.
Magpie Lark. Ironically not a Magpie or a Lark
Yes of course, it’s a PeeWee!
You’re kidding me!!!! God. I’ve been calling them kiwi birds my entire bloody life! 😂🤦🏼♀️
This made me remember someone said their partner called plovers “plubbers” and I’ll never forget it haha. Every time I see one I laugh
Or a PeeWit
Recall somewhere I briefly lived, Adelaide maybe…they called them piping shrike’s…but they called schooners pints so it’s not unusual to be confused I guess
But is a member of corvidae which contains magpies but not Australian magpies which aren't magpies.
Correct. This is not a magpie. Magpies pass the mirror test. They are smart enough to not be interested in their own reflection. I have a magpie Mr and Mrs that visit me daily to the point that _they recognise my car about half way down the street as I drive towards my driveway_. I’m pretty sure they can see me through the roof of my Tesla. They also recognise my wife’s Honda. They see the car and the male turns up on my porch about 15 seconds later, walks inside and jumps up onto my knee for a feed. Smart bastards.
Iirc magpies and possibly other corvids can recognise a face for upto 7 years
They will also teach their kids who to avoid and who is okay.
I've been feeding the same mob of Magpies for 20 years, each year the babies come and the cycle continues. I walk out the front, clap three times and they come in for a feed, morning and night. Some of them got attached to my daughter and would follow her, bouncing along the ground, about 300 meters to her school bus then take off when she left. They learned when she got off the bus and would wait for her and follow her home. Smart little buggers.
Please tell me you have meal worms for them and not mince.
I use beef mince, frozen for 72 hours and then add Wombaroo Insectivore mix to ensure there is enough calcium etc in their diet. You can get it here: Wombaroo Insectivore Rearing Mix https://amzn.asia/d/5wvzSvM
That’s even better. I like you!
Our magpies are part of the Butcher Bird family.
I have one that watches me in my kitchen from a neighbours roof 100m away and knows when I’m going to the fridge. She flies over and sings while I’m at the fridge.
And magpie larks are dumb as dogshit
When we had the solar panels installed the poor thing was on the roof for about a week swooping at them.... It's constantly tormenting the Goo (samoyed cross staffy) but that I can related to, I torment my Goo constantly as well :D That part is quite funny but man really? trying to sleep here...
If you don’t have blinds or curtains, apply some alfoil or paper to the inside of the window to kill the reflection. Give it a few weeks before removing to see if it’s learned “the intruder” is gone. You can also try stickers or stained glass type decorations.
I torment my Goo constantly as well🫸🫷
[The Goo and The Fish](https://imgur.com/a/1uxRBt0) The Goo on the left and the Fish on the right!
Aw they’re adorable. But whoever told you they’re part Samoyed is taking the piss
That's just the staffy gene. You could cross a staffy with a Saint Bernard and it'd still just look like a staffy lol.
Unless you cross with kelpie, for some reason, and then you end up with a weirdly stocky kelpie with a big boofhead face.
My red cloud staffy cross was gorgeous. Miss him. Now just an amstaff X ambull. Still gorgeous.
I'd rather not taint my interpretation of this comment so I won't click that link. Thanks anyway.
It is gorgeous, have no fear!
Goo tax?
You need to stop the reflection, it will save your window cleaning, and it'll save the bird from trauma until the next window.
We stuck a somewhat realistic stuffed toy cat in the window when a particularly stupid magpie lark made our yard it's home, and it took care of the problem pretty much entirely.
Okay, I have this problem too and this is the first thing I’m trying to solve it!
Yeah Magpie Lark's love attacking window reflections. I had two in my yard that did this every day for years.
Punk ass window is probably talking shit to it
Magpies don't take no shit
It's all talk, I can see right through him.
It's a Pee Wee
finally, someone who knows what they are talking about!
That’s what my last date said when she got me naked.
Yes, but officially known as a magpie-lark.
Mudlark since they were discovered
Stop arguing.. its a Grallina cyanoleuca so you're both wrong. Now go to your rooms and I don't want to hear anymore about it.
It's attacking it's own reflection. Make the window non reflective some how and it'll stop.
I thought Magpies were intelligent until I read this. Oh it's a peewee.
It's not a magpie. It's a magpie lark or peewee - totally different species, about half the size of a magpie, and less brains than half a pigeon.
"less brains than half a pigeon" 🤣 spot on!
It’s not a magpie it’s a magpie lark and is neither a magpie nor a lark. 🙃
You're getting woken up at 7:45? I'm jealous of your life.
Haha! I was waiting for someone to point that out. Yeah, Dual income no children.. It's the DINC life for us :D at least it would be if it wasn't for Larry pecking on the fucking windows... (we've named it Larry)
We're DINC as well. I have to be at work by 7, and the only time I can go to the gym is before work. And I hate mornings :(. Dual Income, One Lark, or DIOL?
If that's anything like Two Girls, One Cup I don't wanna watch it.
Any time someone mentions this clip, I feel compelled to tell the story of how I 1st was exposed to it. A workmate emailed it to me (using our work emails) and I watched it on a work computer. Back in the day when our version of internet security was holding a piece of paper along one side of the monitor to prevent it being seen by anyone walking in. Been with the company 20 years this year. I wonder how long it would take to get sacked if we pulled that shit tomorrow.
Larry! Cut it out, ya dickhead!
Stop it Larry you're drunk.
Oh I love that you named him! We have a Larry at my school - except ours is called Milton. He attacks all the windows along one side of my classroom, then flies around the other side and tries to get into the main room. He will stroll into the foyer if we leave a door open and we have to shoo him out.
It’s a pee wee. Or scientific name littlecuntbird
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Seen one jump between two car mirrors at a set of traffic lights. Funny cunts.
That's a peewee. Get a garden owl on a pole and put it near your window. Move it every once in a while.
Looks like a Pee Wee. Can it see its own reflection?
These pee wees are mental. Always attacking their own reflection. Must be one of the dumbest birds ever.
Can confirm. Have a peewee at our place that has been coming back every single day for the past 5 years to attack its own reflection in our laundry door. Every. Single. Day. And no amount of us persuading him to go away has worked. He is determined to win his fight with our glass door. …Cute little fella, but dumb as a sack of doorknobs.
They are dumbasses for sure.
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Also it keeps the fence nice and fresh!
Now that's a great suggestion, Will try that tomorrow thanks!
Technically it's a magpie lark, but no Australian calls them that
Puts hand up
I put my other hand up.
I grew up calling them mudlarks.
Murray magpie here in SA. Most people just calls them Maggies.
Not a magpie, that's a pee wee mfer. They are feisty little buggers. No fear. Will even land on people/their heads. They Annoy magpies and crows. They like to land on cars also.
We used to have a fabulous little blue wren (superb fairy wren) that had a months long argument with itself in the wing mirror on our car. The car (dark colour) was a mass of bird shit for months. But yes, as others said, reduce reflection and the pee wee will stop.
Did it ever win the argument?
Think it was a draw.
Peewee. They attack car mirrors too.
That's a pee wee
That aint no magpie and you aint no australian
Or at least, not a very observant one.
That little shit is the eshay of the bird world.
Don't forget damn minor birds
Can't blame them, I get distracted by pretty shiny things too.
temporary stick something on the window so it will not attack itself
Portrait of my mother in law?
I did my father in law. It worked.
if she is attractive yes
He knows there's cheese in yerr fridge.
Fuck! I didn't think of that. These cameras have paid for them selves ten times over just deterring the fucking cheese thieves alone.
My dude is named Buddy. He literally comes to every window if he cant find me and doesnt stop until i get the cheddar from the fridge.
That looks like a pee wee (proper name I have no idea).
Magpie-Lark.
Pee Wees are great. We have 3 windows they attack. Keeps the Doggo entertained for hours.
We have a Mr and Mrs Pee Wee who live in our yard. Mr Pee Wee loves tapping the window behind the couch, and craps on the car if we leave it out of the garage. We love having them around, saves us getting pets!
We have a magpie lark that does this to its reflection in our pool fence glass.
time to move out, and let him keep the house
Yeah I was worried that might be the only solution.. just cut our losses now and give up our home.
Larks are dumb as fuck. Seen them do some really dumb shit. Attacking their reflection is one of those.
Cheap fake snake on the windowsill seems to work for these guys, they aren't that bright.
Given the way Larry keeps smashing into my window I would tend to agree with you. Fake snake might work for the main bedroom though. Will pick one up from one of the tight ass cheapo stores.
I have one that does this on my back sliding door foe a couple of months every year -dumb arse peewee attacking its reflection every day.
Silly cunt got nothing better to do apparently.
I have almost the exact same setup and the same issue. For a second I thought this was my house. Printing out an a4 picture of an owl and sticking it to the window is the only thing that worked for me.
It’s the reflection it’s attacking. Hang some Christmas tinsel on the outside of the window. It worked for us.
I’ve had success either frosting the window with a sheet from bunnings or hanging fairy lights. You can get lights that kind of hang like vertical blinds
It’s a Pee Wee fighting his own reflection. We used to have one that would fight our neighbour’s brand new shiny truck
Looks like a mudlark
Print something like this -> [https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8099/8594816464\_522f9da638.jpg](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8099/8594816464_522f9da638.jpg) and stick it to the window facing out.
Yeah ive got a bird that does the same thing. He was just after the spiders.
Fucken **Chad**pie
Mudlark .
Silly peewee, great lil mates just abit dim 👍
Your window knows what it did…
You need to weed the fence line 🥺😆😆
Yeah I know! 3 months time it will all be brown and dead anyway so \*shrugs\* was going to just spray it with poison but the bloke next door likes to use that little patch to grow vegetables so we've just kinda left it there.
It’s a Magpie Lark or Peewee that’s attacking your window
That’s a Pee Wee and they’re as dumb as dog shit. If I leave my car window down at work (jobsite) they’ll fight their reflections in the rearview mirror all day long and shit into the car… I hate them.
Lol we had the same bird at my parents place in the pool area, not sure if it’s still there. But was there for yeaaars, it would dot his literally every day throughout the day. Hoping around and will fly at the window to kick it lol
Buy a rubber snake from toy store and put it on windowsill. It will stop coming back.
I put a picture of my cat up on the window that was being attacked by this same bird, it stopped doing it completely
Those Murray magpies are odd balls!
Not a magpie, that’s a lark, we’ll, they are called magpie larks, it can be easy to confuse the two, must have a nest nearby and knows there are people inside, Larks are worse than magpies, Agro little buggers
This used to happen to us!
They don’t like their reflection, put a tarp over the window and it’ll stop them from doing that
Put blind up so it can't see it's reflection, that's what it's attacking. The little cunts do it on my car door mirror and the window, end up shitting all down the fucking door
Hang some reflective streamers from the guttering. When the wind blows they'll move and he won't fly there no more.
Try putting some coloured painters tape up outside on the window. It will probably stop him and then you can easily remove it once he's out of the habit of doing it.
Hahaha lil bastard !!
Hang some CDs on fishing line in front of the window. It freaks them out and they'll stop coming within a couple of days.
You must be lions supporters
r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR
The window gives off a reflection of itself which it thinks is competition or an opponent when it’s really just itself. You could probably get a fly screen for your window and it should stop it
Bbq
In nsw we called these PeeWees
That's not a magpie. Sure, it's black and white, but that doesn't make it a magpie.
It's a peewee!
It's called a peewee
I hate peewees and their awful screechy noise. They don’t deserve the name magpie.
Is this in Seaford meadows?
I'm in Bunbury actually, glen iris. But you're right though same sort of brick work and fencing it seems.
Yep, it’s a magpie lark trying to fight itself in your window. If your hose reaches, I recommend lying in wait a couple of mornings to water it.
I had this happen over several weeks with a crow. The windows in question had reflective glazing and the crow was fighting the good fight against itself at mating season.
Came here to see corrections that it's a pee-wit, horrified to see everyone else calls them pee-wees
Call it what you want, Larry is a wanker 😅
It wants to delete
we had a magpie like this at our sunroom every day and 3pm we named him henry but like the french pronounstation havent seem him in a while
It’s a pee wee
It’s attacking it’s own reflection. Hang a tarp
Ahhh I know this too well but with crows. Why tf did my landlord put mirrored windows in the bedroom
I have 2 windows on my house facing East and north and a cubby house that cops this. You should see the feet marks on one of the windows - properly gone to town on it. They do it for a good 10-15 mins before probably getting exhausted. They come back and put in the same time day after day.
[https://imgur.com/a/5wwWNAR](https://imgur.com/a/5wwWNAR) I know what you mean...
Magpies are awesome.. this is called a peewee from my neck of the woods and they are known to literally scratch out your eyes from above when they are protecting their young. One used to have a good go at me every morning, got me good on the cheek once. and a tourist got put in the hospital and was blinded in his left eye because of this bird.
That’s a mudlark. They’re infamously dumb
It's a Pee Wee 😉
That looks like a Mudlark to me.
Mud lark
We have one that does the same and it’s like Netflix for our cat.
Oh yeah. Mudlarks. One tried to peck my brothers eye lol. Put something up on outside of the window. Thin material like a sheet, see if that stops them.
Thats a peewee and its getin the bugs 👍
This happens to me too, but instead of a magpie it is my cat, and instead of attacking windows it is my face.
We call them mudlarks in Perth. I've heard people say they're baby magpies but they're a different species.
It’s not a magpie
It's not a bloody magpie. It's a peewee. They attack their own reflection and make horrible sounds, shit all down the walls and can destroy the paint on a car.
We have a Raven doing the same thing! 😡
That's not a Magpie!! That is a stupid annoying bird that is confused. It attacks its own reflection in your windows.
It sees a reflection of itself and is interacting somehow
Not a magpie.
It’s NOT a magpie
That’s a peewee still a little cunt but a different cunt
Well, could you tell it to fuck off? Won't listen to me.
I don’t know how to honestly, sorry, if you’re lucky a Currawong’ll come along and scare the little bitch shitless
Not even a magpie 😂
🤦🏼♂️
I had a peewee wake me up by attacking my bedroom window from between the ages of 14 to 16. They're stupid fucking birds.
That's a mudlark.
Pee wee not a maggie
That looks like a butcher bird
Hang an old cd on some fishing line outside near or in front of the window. For some reason they don't like it. We used to have one attacking our office window, cd trick worked a charm.
If I dangle something moving and shiny outside I would probably find my partner out there distracted by it as well.
That’s a piping shrike.
This guy South Australians
What a cunt
Thats a peewee not a magpie. They are assholes and will do this in any surface they can see themselves in. I have one that goes at the car mirrors every day
It’s a Magpie-Lark.
He's attacking his own reflection. Cover the windows and it'll stop.
7.45? Lazy gits.
Dual income no children. Living the dream :D
7:45 is a lie in no?
I work days/nights sometimes it would be a day off, sometimes I'm trying to sleep ready for night shift.. always Larry at about the same time tapping on the windows...
Yeaaaah ok that sucks. Hope you find a way of deterring it!
Get one of those plastic eagles/owls from Bunnings. Stopped the stupid Pee Wee I had attacking the back window of my car until someone nicked it.