Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some bird nests are getting pretty metal. Crows and magpies in Belgium and the Netherlands have constructed their nests using anti ...

Nature experts have criticised Labour as ministers lay the groundwork for a crackdown on trapping magpies. Magpie trapping is ...

A new study has revealed a range of factors that cause a variation in predation by magpies on farmland songbirds. Researchers from University of Exeter and the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT ...

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 ...

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 ...

Magpies are known to terrorise small garden birds like robins and finches, but there is a really simple way to deter these ...