European birds are building nests using anti-bird spikes

When you’re a magpie, and life throws you anti-bird spikes, you make a nest. Researchers in the Netherlands have found many examples of birds ingeniously using anti-bird spikes to fortify their nests. The World’s Anna Kusmer reports. 

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