Frightening moment woman calmly shoos away the world's deadliest bird as it tries to steal her family's lunch

A woman enjoying lunch with her family has unknowingly fended off the world's most deadliest bird after it tried to steal their food.

Australian woman Jess was eating with her mother and sister on a picnic table in the outdoors when a curious cassowary approached the party.

It began snatching food from the table as Jess desperately tried to protect a loaf of bread and the family's plates from the peckish bird.


She managed to shoo the cassowary away as it searched the nearby ground for scraps to eat.

But the bird soon returned its attention to the family's lunch and quickly grabbed the loaf of bread on the table.

Cassowaries are known to be the world's most dangerous bird despite their generally reserved nature.