He said that every year more and more Indians fall ill due to repeated exposure to pigeons. The symptoms of lung scarring ...

Birds had already been spotted using upward-pointing anti-bird spikes as foundations for nests. In 2016, the so-called Parkdale Pigeon became Twitter-famous for refusing to give up when humans ...

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The scientists also mention a spike-embellished Carrion Crow nest reported in a 2009 paper and several reports from social media of birds interacting with rooftop anti-bird spikes—and even ...

As for the use of the anti-bird spikes, Dr. Mainwaring was curious to see “if the behavior spreads, if other magpies see their neighbors using these spikes in nests and think, That’s how you ...

Wherever there are anti-bird spikes and wherever there are crows and magpies, he said, more anti-spike nests are likely waiting to be found.

The new research describes several magpie nests with anti-bird spikes used as the nesting material with the behaviour already seen among birds in the Netherlands, Belgium and Scotland.

Researchers studied four bird nests from European cities — built by carrion crows and Eurasian magpies — made out of anti-bird spikes and strips usually found on urban buildings ...