There was a thread about it in May of last year:
[quote=“sandman”]Black drongos. They get very aggressive if they’re protecting their nests. There’s usually at least one TV news clip per year of some guy getting attacked. And sure, they’ll go for scooter riders, too.[/quote] Pepper Spray for Birds?
Here’s what one poster in that thread suggested:
[quote]Well if they’re anything like the Australian magpie, which are famous for being aggressive to cyclists in particular (late August to early October is their breeding season and thats when they get pissy), the best way to keep 'em off the back of your head is to fly a flag on a pole that extends up from your back wheel. Its not the most convenient thing to do, but it’ll probably keep the these blackbirds at bay. [/quote] Pepper Spray for Birds?
Here’s a short vid of some black birds buzzing a bicyclist (the poster of the vid calls them 烏秋 (wūqiū); I think that may be another name for the black drongo (黑卷尾; hēijuànwěi)):
youtube.com/watch?v=nBSelyVKiK0
Here they’re going at another bicyclist:
youtube.com/watch?v=HSNHWNMJ7BU
Part 2 of the above video:
youtube.com/watch?v=WRYRKHe2tow
Part 3:
youtube.com/watch?v=0mAo0cW_nxg&NR=1
Here’s a Chinese-language page which I think discusses these birds attacking bicyclists:
5i01.com/topicdetail.php?f=268&t=338483&p=7
(Edit: On the page linked just above, there are some good pics of the birds. Earlier I pasted links in this post to those pics, but I just discovered that for some reason the links didn’t work, so I deleted the them.)
Here’s a Wikipedia article on black drongos:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Drongo