Quero-Quero Bird

So, today I went running at this little park close to my house. While sweating profusely, I like looking at the flowers, birds, and giant Ford dealership. Today, when I rounded the corner, I saw these long-legged birds that I've noticed before. They're really graceful and pretty:

So I saw two of these birds, and then three little birds with them, and I thought, maybe those are babies! How cute! And I kept running, and pretty soon I heard this, "Wwwaaaaaack! Wwwaaaack!" And I looked again, and one of the birds was crouched down over, presumably, her chicks, and the other adult was spreading his wings out, and all at once he was flying at my head!

Quero-Quero in attack mode:

He flew right over me and brushed me with his wings, and then continued screeching and turned around, and smashed himself into my back! I was so scared, running with my head under my arms, but also sort of laughing nervously. I peeked out from under my elbows to see if anyone else saw, but I was alone. Of course I thought of Hitchcock's The Birds. I was a little jumpy for the rest of my run.

And then, I told two of my classes about it (by "told," I mean "acted out with flailing arms and screeching noises"), and they nodded sagely and said, "Yes, Teacher. That's the Want-Want bird. It doesn't like when you are close to the babies."

I'll say.