Some bird nests are getting pretty metal. Crows and magpies in Belgium and the Netherlands have constructed their nests using anti-bird spikes ― metal skewers that people place on buildings and ...

Eurasian magpie and carrion crow nests made almost entirely out of anti-bird devices have been found in four European cities Michael Lee Simpson is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. His work has ...

Strips of sharp metal pins are meant to keep birds away from buildings. Some birds are stealing them to build their nests. A nest made from metal pins and other materials collected by magpies, found ...

You've no doubt seen the metal spikes that are placed on the outside of buildings to keep birds from roosting. Well, it has been discovered that magpies and crows are actually using those spikes in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aude-Florian Hiemstra, a biologist, and a magpie nest made of spikes. Scientists have found clever birds have started using ...

It’s the Mad Max dream of a bird’s nest: A menacing composite of metal, clay, twig and plastic. Spotted in a sugar maple tree in Antwerp, Belgium, the gnarly architecture brims with at least 1,500 ...

Despite a plethora of products designed to keep birds off buildings, our feathered friends are sending a clear message: Nice try. Eurasian magpies typically build their nests from thorny branches, but ...

Picture a bird’s nest. Chances are, what comes to mind is a woven basket of twigs and plant fibers—you might not imagine a crown of metal spines. But that’s exactly how some crows and magpies in ...

Biologists present the latest innovation in nest building: bird nests made from anti-nesting spikes. Researchers from Naturalis Biodiversity Center and the Natural History Museum Rotterdam collected ...

Two summers ago, a patient looking out his Belgian-hospital window spied in a tree an odd, abandoned magpie nest of plastic and wire. He had, by coincidence, just read a newspaper article about a ...

Birds in Europe are prying up the metal barbs, meant to repel them from roosting on buildings, and using the devices as nesting material Victoria Sayo Turner Mass Media Fellow, AAAS Picture a bird’s ...