--- title: Angry Birds: An Owl Is Attacking Joggers and Stealing Their Hats description: Some believe the owl is collecting the hats to make a nest canonical: https://time.com/3698709/owl-joggers-attack-oregon/ author: Naina Bajekal article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-06T15:36:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:16:37.377Z og:title: Angry Birds: An Owl Is Attacking Joggers and Stealing Their Hats og:description: Some believe the owl is collecting the hats to make a nest og:url: https://time.com/3698709/owl-joggers-attack-oregon/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Angry Birds: An Owl Is Attacking Joggers and Stealing Their Hats twitter:description: Some believe the owl is collecting the hats to make a nest twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # An Angry Owl Is Attacking Joggers and Stealing Their Hats in Oregon > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-brief-2026q3/newsletters?i=76b7e9a6-0c41-4868-86ff-c7ed007fd8d6&cr=time-nl-brief-2026q3-v1)  by [Naina Bajekal](https://time.com/author/naina-bajekal/)  ## Naina Bajekal Bajekal was executive editor and international editor at TIME. Feb 6, 2015 3:36 PM UTC  by [Naina Bajekal](https://time.com/author/naina-bajekal/)  ## Naina Bajekal Bajekal was executive editor and international editor at TIME. Feb 6, 2015 3:36 PM UTC At least four people have been attacked by an owl over the past month in Salem, Oregon, prompting officials to issue warnings to early morning joggers and park visitors. One jogger [said](http://stjr.nl/1v1qhLL) the owl whacked him so hard he thought he was having a stroke. According to [_Reuters_](http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/02/06/uk-usa-oregon-owl-idUKKBN0LA02F20150206), signs near Bush’s Pasture Park now warn people to avoid jogging before dawn or to consider putting on a hard hat. Members of a bird conservancy group believe a barred owl is responsible, a species notorious for crowding out the smaller, endangered spotted owl. The owl could be more aggressive because of nesting season – it is believed to be collecting hats for its nest. No one has been seriously hurt in any of the incidents, but the city’s parks superintendent said officials have never heard of a case like it before. 36-year-old Brad Hilliard was jogging when the bird “swooped down” and pulled the hat off his head “like it was nothing!” He has since returned a couple of times to look for his hat, but says it hasn’t turned up yet. “I just assume it’s being used in a nest!” \[[_Reuters_](http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/02/06/uk-usa-oregon-owl-idUKKBN0LA02F20150206)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3698709/owl-joggers-attack-oregon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3698709/owl-joggers-attack-oregon/"},"headline":"An Angry Owl Is Attacking Joggers and Stealing Their Hats in Oregon","datePublished":"2015-02-06T15:36:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:16:37.377Z","description":"Some believe the owl is collecting the hats to make a nest","url":"https://time.com/3698709/owl-joggers-attack-oregon/","keywords":["Newsfeed","birds","oregon"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Naina Bajekal","jobTitle":"Bajekal was executive editor and international editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/naina-bajekal/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3698709/owl-joggers-attack-oregon/","name":"An Angry Owl Is Attacking Joggers and Stealing Their Hats in Oregon"}}]}] ```