A routine walk home from school has left a 12-year-old girl in hospital after a magpie attack in WA 's south-west.

Sam Moodie's mother is now speaking out to warn others as Nicole Moodie fears the worst for her daughter's eyesight.

"I've always taught my kids not to look up when they hear a bird," Nicole told 9News.

"She was head down and it's just come from the front and straight into the eye."

The 12-year-old was walking across her school oval in the West Australian town of Australind when she was swooped by a magpie and attacked in the eye.

"I could just see it in her face, she was in a lot of pain," Nicole said.

"She's got a high pain tolerance but she was very pained, she was crying and panicking as well."

The Year 7 student has undergone two surgeries and is

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