23 July 2023
Should you overlooked it …
When Auke-Florian Hiemstra revealed Chicken Nests Made From Anti-Chicken Spikes on 11 July 2023, the inside track unfold like wildfire. The Mother or father and the BBC instantly introduced his record that Eurasian magpies and carrion crows included spikes of their nests within the Netherlands and Scotland. The birds’ ironic re-use of our threatening subject material captured the Web’s creativeness.
Are the birds thumbing their noses (beaks) at us once they use anti-bird spikes? For essentially the most section, no.
Within the town it’s beautiful not unusual to look plastic in nests. As an example this pigeon (nesting on best of anti-bird spikes!) incorporated a duration of crimson plastic twine in its nest. Realize the pigeon’s head in the back of the bend within the twine.
Hiemstra (@AukeFlorian) explains that Eurasian magpies (Pica pica) search for spiky issues, like thorn branches, to give protection to the highest in their dome-shaped nests. However thorn timber are laborious to seek out within the town so …
His tweet thread beneath comprises pictures and movies of different birds’ plastic use. For those who aren’t on Twitter, click on right here to look his complete thread.
So nesting birds aren’t thumbing their noses at us however parrots most likely are. In Australia, the place cockatoos are living within the wild, they display their angle towards our anti-bird makes an attempt. Take that you just nasty spikes! Hah!
Magpies and crows use our plastics in inventive techniques. Parrots mess with our minds. 😉
(pictures from Wikimedia Commons, tweet and movies embedded. Click on at the captions to look the originals)