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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We often see magpie nests perched precariously on utility poles or trees, looking like a random jumble of twigs. However, a new study reveals that these nests, which seem as if they could collapse at ...

Reproductive success of brood parasites largely depends on appropriate host selection and, although the use of inadvertent social information emitted by hosts may be of selective advantage for cuckoos ...

Spring has sprung across the country - and while most Aussies are celebrating the end of winter, the seasonal change brings with it a new threat. More than 800 incidents have already been reported so ...

Black-billed magpies and American crows, both members of the clever corvid family of birds, have adapted comfortably to life in urban and suburban communities. In Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the two ...