LONDON - Look up. The birds are taking charge. The hard metal spikes that humans install to prevent birds from perching have been found in nests across Europe. The birds are masterfully subverting ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A research team has found birds' nests around Europe that contain strips of anti-bird metal spikes. They say birds seem to be protecting their nests with devices people use to shoo birds away. Well, ...
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 ...
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