“It sounds like a joke.” But these bird nests are very real.
. But Hiemstra believes the magpies employed them much as they were originally intended: to ward off other birds.
This is the nest that started the new study. Spotted outside a hospital in Antwerp, Belgium, this Eurasian magpie nest is adorned with roughly 50 meters of antibird strips that contain more than 1,500 spikes. The strips were originally meant to deter birds from landing on buildings.This carrion crow nest was found in a poplar tree in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The structure contains 24 identical antibird strips — likely pilfered from a nearby construction site — with a total of 336 spikes.
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