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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 ...

Spikes placed on buildings to deter birds are being used by birds to build nests in several locations around Europe. “It sounds like a joke,” says Auke-Florian Hiemstra at the Naturalis Biodiversity ...

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 ...

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 ...

Naturalist Auke-Florian Hiemstra has seen a lot of bird nests, but none were quite like the one he spotted in a photograph from a patient in a Belgian hospital. This nest, high in a sugar maple in the ...

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 ...

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 ...