Dutch study identifies several examples of corvids’ ‘amazing’ ability to adapt to the urban environment Birds have never shied away from turning human rubbish into nesting materials, but even experts ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The affluent community of Bristol, England, caused an uproar after it installed "anti-bird" spikes on neighborhood trees in an effort to protect vehicles from droppings. The spikes, which are ...