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Keep pigeons and birds away with $14 DIY bird spikes

Keep those pesky pigeons and other birds away (and their poop) with these super easy to make DIY Bird Spikes. You can make a ton of them for only $14 USD. 📦 PRODUCTS IN THIS VIDEO 📦 • Foil Tape • ...
People

Researchers Find Birds Are Using Anti-Bird Spikes to Build Their Nests: 'A Brilliant Comeback'

Eurasian magpie and carrion crow nests made almost entirely out of anti-bird devices have been found in four European cities Michael Lee Simpson is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. His work has ...
Futurism

Bird Uses Anti-Bird Spikes to Create Fortified Nest

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 ...
The Atlantic

The Most Metal Bird Nests You’ll Ever See

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 ...
New Atlas

Birds are using anti-bird spikes to build more secure nests

Upon closer examination, that nest was found to contain approximately 1,500 anti-bird spikes. They had been pulled by the birds, from about 50 meters (164 ft) of the hospital's eaves. The magpies ...
Scientific American

Cities Use Spikes to Keep Birds Away. Birds Are Using Them in Nests

Naturalist Auke-Florian Hiemstra has seen a lot of bird nests, but none were quite like the one he spotted in a photograph from a patient in a Belgian hospital. This nest, high in a sugar maple in the ...
Complex

Birds Repurposing 'Anti-Bird' Spikes to Build Nests, Researchers Say

Birds in Europe are ironically using anti-bird devices in their favor. According to a recent study published in the journal Deinsea, researchers from the Natural History Museum in Rotterdam and the ...
Boston Review

Bird Spikes

You can evoke a bird with one, maybe two gestures. One is sufficient—beak or wing, and you’re done. Bird. You can evoke a bird with one, maybe two gestures. One is sufficient—beak or wing, and you’re ...
WUNC

Birds are using anti-bird spikes to protect their nests, a Netherlands team has found

Well, maybe angry birds is a bit too harsh. MARTÍNEZ: (Laughter). FADEL: Protective birds may be more fitting, although both sound scary to me. Seems birds are making their nests with hazards like ...
Texarkana Gazette

Birds are using anti-bird spikes to fortify nests in 'perfect comeback'

LONDON - Look up. The birds are taking charge. The hard metal spikes that humans install to prevent birds from perching have been found in nests across Europe. The birds are masterfully subverting ...
Yahoo

Crows And Magpies Are Building Nests Out Of Anti-Bird Spikes

Some bird nests are getting pretty 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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Crows and Magpies Snatch Anti-Bird Spikes to Build Their Nests

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 ...