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 ...

Aude-Florian Hiemstra, a biologist, and a magpie nest made of spikes. Scientists have found clever birds have started using anti-bird spikes in their nests to protect their offspring from other ...

Magpies are notoriously territorial, but they're also highly intelligent and social birds. Magpies are notoriously territorial, but they're also highly intelligent and social birds. Anyone who’s ever ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Magpies are members of the corvid family of birds. Like crows, they are highly intelligent animals and exhibit problem-solving abilities. When a couple of magpies showed up outside her window, Sarah ...

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 ...