Instead, it protects wearers from the swooping magpie, a quintessentially Australian experience where the bird flies low, clacking its beak and sometimes drawing blood by pecking the head of a human victim. While Australian native animals such as the box jellyfish, funnel web spider and several snake species continue to top the world's most deadly creature lists, the magpie also regularly hits the headlines. Claire Dunne was cycling in the Hunter Valley north of Sydney in July when she was attacked and chased by a magpie along a road for half a minute.
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