On July 6, a birds of prey show at Alice Springs Desert Park in Australia’s Northern Territory went awry after a bird apparently tried to carry off a small boy, The Guardian reports.
“At a nature park in Alice Springs we decided to go to a bird show the young boy in the green kept pulling his zipper up and down,” bystander Christine O’Connell wrote on Instagram, captioning a photo of the incident. “For some reason the Wedge Tailed Eagle did not like it and instead of flying over to the log he is meant to for a photo opportunity he flew straight at the young boy and attacked him.”
Another witness, Keenan Lucas, told NT News that the boy’s mother was “distraught” and the show quickly came to an end.
“It looked as if the bird tried to pick him up like a small animal and take off with him,” Lucas said.
“At a nature park in Alice Springs we decided to go to a bird show the young boy in the green kept pulling his zipper up and down,” bystander Christine O’Connell wrote on Instagram, captioning a photo of the incident. “For some reason the Wedge Tailed Eagle did not like it and instead of flying over to the log he is meant to for a photo opportunity he flew straight at the young boy and attacked him.”
Another witness, Keenan Lucas, told NT News that the boy’s mother was “distraught” and the show quickly came to an end.
“It looked as if the bird tried to pick him up like a small animal and take off with him,” Lucas said.
