How the tables have turned!
A patient in a hospital in Belgium saw something highly unusual when looking out of his window: a peculiar bird's nest that appeared to be made out of metal spikes designed — ironically — to keep birds away from buildings.
"It just was this very big ball of metallic, nasty bird spikes," Auke-Florian Hiemstra, naturalist and PhD candidate at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands,As it turns out, a crafty Eurasian magpie had stuck together some 1,500 spikes to build a formidable two-foot-wide nest. The bird even fastened some of these spikes on the top to ward off intruders, a kind of defensive roof magpies often build with thorny branches, according to the report.
"It sounds like a joke," Hiemstra added. "I think it’s so funny that now they’ve started to use these anti-bird spikes in the same way that we intended them to be used."
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