Notice how the magpie turns sideways when getting really close to the cat so if the cat lurches the bird won't have to fly towards the cat. Smart bird!
Yes, slightly irritated maybe judging by the swishing tail, but not really troubled. Maybe it's sitting too close to the magpie's nest with eggs or chicks, and they're trying to shoo it away.
I had a big, long-haired ginger cat named Bob. One day he caught a mouse in the street and was forced to defend his prize against a pair of magpies. One would approach, chattering to gain his attention, while the other silently came up from behind. He'd wheel round while protecting his little captive with his body. The game would then resume with the magpies reversing roles. This went on for several minutes, until the birds tired of their sport. Bob was quite flustered by the encounter. I don't know how the mouse fared, as I went back in the house. Tame cats will sometimes allow their prey to escape after toying with it. But those magpies working in tandem to get that little creature away from Bob were bold little hunters.
Where I live, a cat got into the Magpie nest and killed the chicks. The cat was harassed for 2 weeks after that by adult Magpies; so bad that the cat was huddled at the owners door all the time. Someone found a dead cat a few weeks later close to the owners house. The noise went on for weeks.
We had magpies that did that to our old cat sometimes. He was old, so they'd sneak up behind him and pull his tail. I don't know if they were playing or protecting something, but they lived in our garden, but rarely bothered our cat. He was a roaming type of cat, maybe that's why. They would also steal food from bird feeders meant for smaller birds. Their beaks were to big, so they would shake the container until seeds fell out. Clever and cute.
@@tomato2517that is actually plausible, they will, like other crows, take sheep wool off barbed wire fences and off the sheeps back, horsehair as well to line their nests with.
My kitten ventured out to explore for the first gew times and encountered a magpie. He's terrified of them. They just sit in the trees or on the fence and shout at my kitty and he skulks away crouched down with his tail low and hurries away like a coward. 🤣
@@JakeG1 you say something so wrong, so unbelievably stupid, and when that's pointed out, you act like that means you actually proved something? No wonder you hate magpies, you're jealous. You're dumber than a magpie and you hate them for that.
I have one magpie in the garden who's been doing this to my tabby for days, kitty has given up trying to fight back, the magpie is noisy and aggravating and just doesn't give up trying to peck him. The bird seems to have something up in the tree but doesn't appear to have a mate, my poor kitty doesn't get any peace while that birds around.
@COLTON AKA SNOWATIMI agree they're vermin, they say magpies are bright but this one must have a screw loose the amount of times he's stalked my cat! (Even when my cat's inside)
Just seen this behaviour today. 2 magpies kept on squawking at something under car. I looked there was a cat there. Cat seemed scared to come out under car, eventually when it did. I saw both magpies flying above them. Marvellous birds.
Who's seen the video of several American crows pulling at an eagle's tail to distract and take his/hers catch.. looks like the cat has learnt not to play the magpies game
What's funny is that magpies are smart enough to remember which cat is a bird hunter. Around my house there are 2 magpies always attacking the same cat and not the others.
I've heard a true story about a guy that complained the rear view mirror of his car was vandalized for the 3rd time in the same parking, police checked the video cameras and it was a magpie. For some reasons the bird was angry at this car, why exactly this car, nobody knows.
Magpies stalk my neighbours cat. I think they do it for the dead mice they catch. Once my cat caught a mouse and as I told him off he dropped the mouse and a magpie swooped down and took it.
corvidae are one of if not the most intelligent of the bird families. They aren't really aggressive here. They're just entertaining themselves. That's right. These birds are intelligent enough to not only have the ability to use tools and demonstrate simple problem solving skills, they have a social structure based upon play. I've been researching and studying bird behavior for years and the corvids are quite ornery. Usually aggression is shown towards someone that has wronged them for they can remember faces that threaten or attack them. Some even hold grudges.
@@josephkovalcik8266Does the bird talk fluently in sentences while understanding and meaning what they're saying, or do they just repeat things they hear without understanding them?
Well, if the cat showed little sign of being bothered, it was hardly being terrorised, was it? (Typical bird behaviour around a predator when the nesting season is on.)
Magpies are proven to be one of the few species other than man that can be deceitful. They are mean as hell and they do not have to be protecting a nest. They're like vultures if you set a piece of meat out and it's terrifying to watch them. I have two house cats that had no fear except from a magpie.
I think the magpies may be protecting their young by doing that. Distracting or/and trying to drive the kitty away. They do that especially when it's nesting season or when the chic(s) have left the nest. They see the cat as an enemy -- with good reason.
Sweet, natural retribution! Magpies harass other predators like hawks, so it makes sense that they'd take on an invasive house cat - one that has no right being outside near so many native species.
A mother quail will intentionally expose herself to predators in order to get them to chase her, and she will lead the predators away from her chicks. I think something like that was going on. There was a Magpie under the car that the cat was focused on, but the other Magpie got the cat’s attention away from that Magpie and on to itself.
They do it to prepare for the nesting, so as the frigging cat will stay away from the nest and stay away from Mag-Pies alltogher. Simple and intelligent.
Many bird species will taunt cats for a reason like they are too close to a nest or perhaps for Revenge from killing chicks, but magpies are just casual harassers. Something gives me the impression that they know how to choose their targets because orange kitty here doesn't really seem too motivated
All these people commenting that it's about the nest, I just don't believe, for many years there have been 2 tabby cats in my neighbourhood. The birds come down follow the cats, when the cats lay down or are in a drive way they still follow or sit their squacking at the cats. It's sooo annoying and loud. The only way they leave is if I make louder noises, then they fly away and don't come back for a few days, the cats remain here in these streets. Why are people saying the cats are hunting them, they are sleeping and the birds come close.
Every year seaguls would lay eggs on school roof opposite my nanas one year her neighbours kept a falcon, hawk, owl & eagle in thier back gardens & when the Seagulls laid thier eggs on the school roof just having these bird of prey in the garden sent the seagulls crazy non stop flying in circles whilst squarking & the odd swoop down reminds me of what these magpies are doing... you'd risk your life to save your young
These birds can terrorise cats. I've had black and white cats that they stalk and frighten. Even had an old cat they tried to attack and my son had to rescue
I tried to help two pies catch a big rat they tried to kill. However I scared the pies too much so they could not get to it properly. I managed to drive the rat towards them but they were too afraid to let me come close to them with the rat driven in front of me. The rat threatened them and counter-attacked, showing its teeth. The pies attacked with their beaks, trying to poke and get a death-blow. Very interesteing to see.
I am an owner of a magpie like this for 8 years now. I've learned a lot. This behaviour to them is like extreme sports and oh boy how much they love doing this. Trust me they ain't get killed. They have so immediate reflexes. If they exactly know the weight of the danger, they can't easily get swatted, like a fly. They LOVE to make the cat angry, though. Either they like to dominate and bully.
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-USN8spjKFlU.html Just look at this one. They exactly know the fox could kill them yet they acting so confident or fearless. They even can turn their back at the fox, they still see it.
( portuguese) quando o gato abana a cauda e olha para o pássaro com tranquilidade, ele diz: " você está me irritando e eu vou pegá-lo" ... simples assim.
Looks like a form of mobbing behaviour to me, I've seen crows do something similar to one of my cats. Many birds will group up to try and harass predators in order to get them to leave the area.
1:55 only a lame person would say that, one cat can kill hundreds of birds, small mammals and reptiles over it's lifetime. Bet she doesn't give a squat about them. Cats should strictly be house cats
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I think that's a mated pair where the male is trying to get cat hair to line their nest with something soft. Other birds do this, too. Remember when you brush your pet or horse to collect the hairs and put them outside for the birds to use.
I hate it at night when I cant sleep because of the damn birds.. you know theres a cat out there. I dont judge the cat. Just wish he could frickin silence them.
