--- title: Girl on Rollercoaster Gets Hit in the Face by Bird Video description: A young girl on the DC Rivals Hypercoaster got a bit more thrill than she bargained for when a large bird flew into her face mid-ride. canonical: https://time.com/5638964/rollercoaster-bird/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-07-30T17:22:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:59:44.879Z og:title: The Shocking Moment When a Girl on Rollercoaster Gets Hit in the Face by a Bird og:description: "I didn't know what it was at first" og:url: https://time.com/5638964/rollercoaster-bird/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt88b8ad3b0fcf2d98/698a0099096a945e9f6a6b81/rollercoasterbirdride.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5500 og:image:height: 3094 og:image:alt: Rear view of couple with arms raised about to begin descent on roller coaster in amusement park og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Shocking Moment When a Girl on Rollercoaster Gets Hit in the Face by a Bird twitter:description: "I didn't know what it was at first" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt88b8ad3b0fcf2d98/698a0099096a945e9f6a6b81/rollercoasterbirdride.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Video Captures Alarming Moment Girl on Rollercoaster Gets Hit in the Face by a Bird > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jul 30, 2019 5:22 PM UTC  Rear view of couple with arms raised about to begin descent on roller coaster in amusement park Rear view of couple with arms raised about to begin descent on roller coaster in amusement park Thomas Barwick—Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jul 30, 2019 5:22 PM UTC People who ride [rollercoasters](https://time.com/5630317/riders-stuck-six-flags/) are often [seeking a thrill](https://time.com/93374/new-record-breaking-rides/). But a young girl on the DC Rivals Hypercoaster at Warner Bros. Movie World in Queensland, Australia, recently got a bit more thrill than she bargained for when a large [bird](https://time.com/5415378/drunk-birds-minnesota/) flew into her face mid-ride. A video captured by the amusement park that was shared on [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/nicole.harvey.9822/posts/3400248939988976) by Nicole Ormiston shows the shocking moment that a rogue ibis, an Australian wading bird, smashed into Paige Ormiston while she was riding in the front seat of the rollercoaster. “Paige just got hit by an ibis while riding front seat on the DC Rival Hypercoaster with Uncle Mitch,” the post read. “She had feathers on her and a beak scratch on her right shoulder. She’s completely shocked, a little bruised but ok not sure about the bird? How can you not buy that video.” Paige later told [9News](https://www.9news.com.au/national/girl-ibis-rollercoaster-movie-world-hit-by-bird-video-gold-coast-news/a2f5286d-7baf-41f8-8c55-342cad317a1c) that the look of extreme terror on her face was a a result of the fact that she didn’t know what hit her. “I was very scared. I didn’t know what to do because I was stuck in a chair,” she said. “I saw it was white \[but\] I didn’t know what it was at first.” Watch the video of the girl getting hit by a bird while on a rollercoaster below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5638964/rollercoaster-bird/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5638964/rollercoaster-bird/"},"headline":"Video Captures Alarming Moment Girl on Rollercoaster Gets Hit in the Face by a Bird","datePublished":"2019-07-30T17:22:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:59:44.879Z","description":"\"I didn't know what it was at first\"","url":"https://time.com/5638964/rollercoaster-bird/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Australia","animals","viral","birds"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt88b8ad3b0fcf2d98/698a0099096a945e9f6a6b81/rollercoasterbirdride.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt88b8ad3b0fcf2d98/698a0099096a945e9f6a6b81/rollercoasterbirdride.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Rear view of couple with arms raised about to begin descent on roller coaster in amusement park","caption":"roller coaster ride","creditText":"Thomas Barwick—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/5638964/rollercoaster-bird/","name":"Video Captures Alarming Moment Girl on Rollercoaster Gets Hit in the Face by a Bird"}}]}] ```