Fox News host Peter Doocy has been attacked by birds — for the second time in a month.
The senior correspondent was reporting live Monday from the White House for the morning show “America’s Newsroom” and discussing President Donald Trump’s order to reopen Alcatraz, San Francisco Bay’s former federal prison, when a feathered friend derailed him.
“Are you dodging birds again?” Fox News colleague Dana Perino asked Doocy, who was visibly ducking for cover during the segment.
He confirmed: “There is a bird! Yes, I am! I don’t know, I need to, like, shave my head. What’s going on?”
“It’s because you’re so tall, and so cute,” Perino replied.
While he went on to joke that somebody should “send the birds to Alcatraz,” social media users noted Doocy was standing in the same area of the White House grounds where a bird landed on him last month — and suggested the anchor move elsewhere.
“A smart person would figure out he’s standing too close to the nest. Mama birds are very protective,” one person wrote on X, formerly Twitter, with another user commenting: “Going to continue until nesting season is over. He needs to move farther from the trees.”
Both broadcasts with feathered animals concerned contentious Trump policies. The bird tried to sit on Doocy’s head last month while he was reporting on Trump’s controversial trade war with China and increased tariffs, which have led economists to fear a recession, or worse.
The pundit was reporting live for “Fox & Friends” from the White House grounds when he suddenly began flailing.
“A bird just landed on my head!” Doocy exclaimed at the time. “I did not like that at all.”
Trump’s announcement Sunday that he wants to reopen Alcatraz has sparked confusion. Alcatraz was famously closed in the 1960s as it was far more costly to operate than other facilities. The president said he wishes to use the island prison for America’s most violent offenders, however, and that he’s already directed federal agencies to do so.
“Alcatraz closed as a federal penitentiary more than sixty years ago,” Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) wrote Sunday night on X. “It is now a very popular national park and major tourist attraction. The President’s proposal is not a serious one.”
Whether it will reopen remains to be seen, as does whether Doocy will face a third bird attack.
