{"id":360049,"date":"2026-07-03T00:42:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T19:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=360049"},"modified":"2026-07-03T00:42:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T19:12:02","slug":"birds-in-ukraine-make-apocalyptic-nests-out-of-fibre-optic-cables-news-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/07\/03\/birds-in-ukraine-make-apocalyptic-nests-out-of-fibre-optic-cables-news-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Birds in Ukraine make ‘apocalyptic’ nests out of fibre optic cables | News World"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The nests have been sent to museums for testing (Picture: Oleg Malchenko\/east2west news)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Birds in war-ravaged Ukraine are constructing nests using fibre optic cables as a substitute of twigs.<\/p>\n

These ultra-thin wires have turned most of Ukraine\u2019s 746-mile front line right into a glistening spider web, found draped over buildings and tangling in trees.<\/p>\n

But they\u2019re not for adornment \u2013 each Ukraine and Russia have lined the region with the cables to forestall the opposite from jamming attack drones. <\/p>\n

Birds are benefiting from these wires \u2013 which might stretch as much as 20km in length \u2013 by constructing nests from them, somewhat than using twigs, moss or grass.<\/p>\n

Yana Hrynko, a senior researcher at Kyiv\u2019s War Museum,\u00a0said at the least two of those nests have been found thus far.<\/p>\n

Hrynko said experts don\u2019t know what kind of bird made the nests or after they were built, and have sent them for testing.<\/p>\n

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The nests, experts say, show how much the four-year war has modified Ukraine (Picture: Oleg Malchenko\/east2west news)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The scraggly nests could also be stronger than those manufactured from twigs (Picture: Oleg Malchenko\/east2west news)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The spools of cables are used to guide attack drones (Picture: Social media \/east2west news)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2018Objects \u2060equivalent to bird nests with fragments \u200cof optic fibre exhibit the change in the character of war,\u2019 she added. <\/p>\n

Several nests like these have been discovered in\u00a0frontline regions of Donetsk, Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia in recent weeks, Ukrainian personnel told Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0support battalion of the twelfth Azov Brigade within the Torets direction shared a photograph of the creepy-looking nest on Telegram<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n

\u2018That is just one in every of dozens of manifestations of how nature survives within the flames of war. Between tons of of drones, assaults, shelling, and kilometres of scorched earth,\u2019 the brigade said. <\/p>\n

One in all the nests was found after a Russian glide bomb knocked down a tree in Donbas.<\/p>\n

Olena Tregub, secretary general of the Ukrainian civil society group, NAKO, called the pile of cables and grass an \u2018apocalyptic bird nest\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Apocalyptic bird nest.<\/p>\n

A Russian glide bomb knocks down a tree in Donbas. From the shattered branches rolls out a tiny bird\u2019s nest.<\/p>\n

Product of drone fiber-optic cable.<\/p>\n

Source: Oleg Malchenko pic.twitter.com\/NWzLyv0hla<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Olena Tregub (@OTregub) June 6, 2026<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

National animal welfare group UAnimals shared a video on Instagram that it said was posted by a Ukrainian soldier on his private social media account.<\/p>\n

The group said that fibreglass doesn’t decompose, which is why they linger on the Ukrainian landscape long after drones have left.<\/p>\n

\u2018But we must do not forget that the Russians are forcing us to wage a defensive war, and the responsibility for the wounded nature lies with our enemies,\u2019 UAnimals added. <\/p>\n

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Despite people comparing messy hair to a \u2018bird\u2019s nest\u2019, these mounds of natural material are rigorously crafted and complicated.<\/p>\n

Most stay of their nests for a month or two to lift their young, in order that they are choosy about what they pluck, and each species uses different materials.<\/p>\n

Some use snakeskin <\/a>to postpone predators, while others stuff feathers inside dome-shaped nests\u00a0to make a fake entrance to idiot their hungry enemies. <\/p>\n

Yet to the alarm of bird experts, called ornithologists, birds are increasingly using rubbish like sweet wrappers, cigarettes, and wires to make nests.<\/p>\n

Researchers say this widespread behaviour<\/a> is an indication that birds, which evolved from tiny dinosaurs 150 million years ago, are quick to adapt in a world shaped by humans. <\/p>\n

In spite of everything, some imagine that they\u2019re plucking cigarette butts because the leftover nicotine may repel predators<\/a>. And even use anti-bird spikes as material.<\/p>\n

An evaluation <\/a>of nests built during the last 30 years found that the animals even built them out of face masks throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. They\u2019re soft to the birds, almost like mattresses, the researchers said.<\/p>\n

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Examples of the mud-covered rubbish birds use to make nests (Picture: Ecology\/Auke-Florian Hiemstra)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But this rubbish could also be dirty and nestlings may gobble it up, leading to sickness or death.<\/p>\n

Auke-Florian Hiemstra, a biologist based within the Dutch city of Leiden, said that Ukraine\u2019s cable-filled nest-building has its pros and cons. <\/p>\n

She said that, as much because the birds may turn into entangled within the spools of cable, they is perhaps using it to strengthen their nests.<\/p>\n

\u2018We\u2019re going to search for DNA traces still in a nest to find out \u200cwho actually made the nest,\u201d she said, with one in every of the bogus nests sent to her team. <\/p>\n

\u2018I \u2060have never seen nests like this before \u2013 and I actually have seen many, many bird nests.\u2019<\/p>\n

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