Clip attracts almost 500,000 views on TikTok

A TIKTOK video of a woman being swooped at Darwin Waterfront has gone viral. WATCH THE VIDEO HERE

VIDEO of a woman being swooped by a peewee at Darwin Waterfront has gone viral on sensational social media platform TikTok.

The clip posted by user @myersquatss - understood to be filmed either in 2019 or early 2020 - shows a woman walking then running across the lawns of the Waterfront.

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A caption in the first part of the video reads ‘My Scottish friend didn’t believe me when I told her the birds in Australia attack you’, before the clip takes a hazardous turn.

The woman then ducks when a peewee attempts to swipe her head, and tries a zig-zag manoeuvre to escape the talons of the beast.

She runs through multiple trees before darting to the wave lagoon. In the background a woman is heard laughing maniacally.

The video was posted to TikTok earlier this week and has been viewed more than 440,000 times, with more than 51,000 likes.

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It also boasts more than 800 comments.

“Doesn’t everything in Australia attack you?” wrote @sharonclarke87.

“If the animals aren’t attacking you, you’re not in Australia,” wrote @brians_theory.

“I got a free ear piercing once from those birds, they have no mercy,” wrote basko_19.

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