2024-10-19 UTC
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Loqi [islandinthenet.com] In Do Birds Use Scarecrows?, Vanya Rohwer explores why birds, especially cavity-nesters, incorporate shed snake skin into nests. This rare material deters small mammal predators, likely due to their fear of snakes. The study found that cavity-nesters are 6.5 times more likely to... (https://islandinthenet.com/sunday-paper-birds-make-scarecrows/)