A patient in a hospital in Belgium saw something highly unusual when looking out of his window: a peculiar bird’s nest that appeared to be made out of metal spikes designed — ironically — to keep ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Anti-bird spikes are used around the world to keep birds off buildings. But clever magpies and crows in Europe have figured out how to use them to their advantage. They have started using the spikes ...