WATCH: News Reporter Pummeled By Bird During Live Recording

TV journalists are used to dodging rain, rowdy crowds, and the occasional flying object. New Zealand reporter Jess Tyson took that last one to a whole new level when a bird slammed into her face in the middle of a street broadcast, and the cameras caught every second.

Tyson posted the wild video to Instagram this week, showing the moment a feathered missile dove straight into her shot while she was filming a segment for Te Ao with Moana in Auckland’s Commercial Bay. She jolted away from the camera and immediately worried something had gone wrong with her eye.“Oh, s**t, you’re bleeding,” a co-worker said.

“Am I?” she asked.

“Yeah,” the colleague confirmed.

“Oh, f**k,” Tyson said.

A bystander rushed over to get her first aid inside a nearby building. Once patched up, the former Miss World New Zealand stepped right back onto the street and finished what she started.

“I didn’t have to continue but I decided I wanted to because I wasn’t happy with my first takes,” she told TODAY on Friday. Concerned viewers soon learned the bird didn’t do any lasting damage. “My eye is all good,” she said.

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Tyson later joked about the incident online, proving she can take a hit better than most birds can take a flight path.
“The commitment to the job is real! Bird needed (glasses) really!” she wrote.

She told TODAY she’s sporting just a small scratch, but otherwise, she’s fine.

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