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’s the Mad Max dream of a bird’s nest: A menacing composite of metal, clay, twig and plastic. Spotted in a sugar maple tree in Antwerp, Belgium, the gnarly architecture brims with at least 1,500 ...

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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 ...

Is the sight of a bird roosting in the branch of a tree something to be enjoyed and admired? According to one NSW council, the answer appears to be no. An image shared to Yahoo News Australia of ...

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 ...

Picture a bird’s nest. Chances are, what comes to mind is a woven basket of twigs and plant fibers—you might not imagine a crown of metal spines. But that’s exactly how some crows and magpies in ...