Artificial bird nest installed in nature reserve
An artificial bird bank designed to provide a safe nesting site for sand martins has been installed in a nature reserve in ...
Plastic trash in bird nests documents the Anthropocene epoch
What if expiration dates could tell us more than when something goes bad? Scientists have found that dates on plastic food ...
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These Bird Nests Are Full of Trash, Including Some That's 30 Years Old
Eurasian coots are round, black waterbirds with distinctive, chicken-like feet. Each year, these birds typically build new, ...
Plastic Triggered a New Geological Epoch—and the Evidence May Be in Bird Nests
Researchers reconstructed the history of an unusual 30-year-old bird nest based on the expiration dates printed on plastic ...
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Birds are building nests out of decades-old plastic trash and it’s a record of the ...
The most striking discovery was a nest built on an abandoned foundation pile in Amsterdam’s Rokin canal. Over decades, it had ...