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Birds are building nests out of decades-old plastic trash and it’s a record of the AnthropoceneFIFA World Cup souvenir. A McDonald’s McChicken container from 1996. Decades-old plastic packaging. Look inside the nests of Eurasian coots, and you’ll find a surprising history of human plastic ...
Coots' nests in Amsterdam are built using discarded plastic, providing a time capsule into the material's use over the past ...
The fledgling will be released into the wild once it's old enough, as part of an effort to boost dwindling buzzard numbers in ...
Is the abundance of plastic in Eurasian coot nests necessarily bad? Yes and no, says Hiemstra. Since plastic doesn’t break down, using it means the birds don't have to spend as much time ...
The Kotla reservoir, though not a formally protected wildlife sanctuary, supports hundreds of migratory birds each year, ...
The Eurasian coot, a round and black waterbird ... every bit of old nesting material remains as the birds stack new layers of material, one breeding season after another. Scientists have ...
His discovery of successive layers of plastic in birds’ nests, from different periods, has now been published in the scientific journal Ecology. “You flip through these nests like through pages of a ...
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