When it comes to building nests, birds use a wide variety of tactics and materials. Some birds, like the puffin, burrow into ...

A nest made from metal pins and other materials collected by magpies, found in a sugar maple tree in Antwerp, Belgium.Credit...Auke-Florian Hiemstra Supported by By Emily Anthes Auke-Florian ...

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 ...

It all began when a patient at an Antwerp hospital spotted a large and unusual magpie nest, high up in a tree in the facility's courtyard. Upon closer examination, that nest was found to contain ...

It all started with the discovery of a huge nest in the courtyard of an Antwerp hospital, which was spotted by one of the patients. High up in a tree, magpies made a huge nest of up to 1,500 metal ...

In a tree near a hospital in Antwerp, Belgium, a magpie made a nest containing around 1500 metal spikes. The spikes on the side of the building closest to the tree were gone, while those on the ...

It started with the discovery of a huge nest in Antwerp in the courtyard of a hospital, which was spotted by one of the patients. High up in a tree, magpies made a huge nest of up to 1,500 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 sometimes even on trees to prevent birds from ...

And eggs left in nests also have their admirers. At the forefront of these flying thieves is the corvid family, including the magpie, the crow and the jay. Biologist Magne Husby sought to ...