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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Neighboring groups of birds within the same species can create very different-looking nests — showing that their nest-building choices aren’t solely controlled by instinct and the environment. Instead ...