Magpies use 'anti-nesting' spikes to keep other birds away

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Magpies use 'anti-nesting' spikes to keep other birds away
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A hospital patient spotted magpies making a massive nest using nearly 1,500 'anti-nesting' metal spikes to create the 'craziest bird nests' ever.

Referring to his past research, Hiemstra reports that he regularly encounters birds nests built with plastics including products like condoms, fireworks, cocaine wraps, sunglasses and windshield wipers

“If even bird-repellent sharp spikes are used as nesting material, apparently anything can end up in a bird's nest these days. It doesn’t get any crazier than this, does it?" he said. Kees Moeliker, director of the Natural History Museum Rotterdam and study’s co-author said, "Just when you think you've seen it all after half a century of studying natural history, these inventive crows and magpies really surprise me again.”

People can now visit the LiveScience room of Naturalis to view the large magpie nest made of anti-bird pins from Antwerp, free of charge in the Leiden, while the spiky crow’s nest can be viewed at The Natural History Museum, Rotterdam.Abstract The use of man-made, even sharp materials for nest building in birds is well known. The first report of a crow’s nest made of barbed wire dates back to 1933, and recent reports document the use of e.g. nails, screws, and drug users’ syringes in avian architecture. Here we report the first well-documented study on nests of carrion crowand Eurasian magpie Pica pica that almost entirely consist of material that is meant to deter birds: anti-bird spikes.

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