Woman shocked as magpie appears to strike up polite conversation
A woman has filmed her encounter with what sounds like a talking magpie.
Lisa Brooks was walking through a park in Yorkshire, England last week when she found the bird on the ground sounding like it was talking. She shared video of it on Facebook.
The bird squawks at her.
“You alright?” it appears to say.
The magpie keeps playing with a twig but then steps up onto a perch.
It then sounds like the bird says: “You alright, love?”
Ms Brooks asks the bird the same question.
“I’m alright, I’m alright,” it sounds like the bird replies.
The video has more than 1.8 million views with many left in stitches over the “conversation” between the two.
“They’re taking over,” one man wrote.
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Others have pointed out the bird sounds like it has an accent.
“I just think it’s funny because it has a northern accent,” one man wrote.
Ms Brooks told the Sun she also thinks the bird is a local.
“I found it absolutely hilarious,” she said.
“It must be a local – it has a proper Yorkshire accent.”
