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Birds are building nests out of decades-old plastic trash and it’s a record of the Anthropocene
FIFA World Cup souvenir. A McDonald’s McChicken container from 1996. Decades-old plastic packaging. Look inside the nests of ...
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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine7d
These Bird Nests Are Full of Trash, Including Some That’s 30 Years Old
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 ...
New Scientist7d
Birds' nests in Amsterdam are made up of plastic from 30 years ago
Coots' nests in Amsterdam are built using discarded plastic, providing a time capsule into the material's use over the past ...
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Swooping bald eagle kept trying to catch a coot at SLO County lake. See the video
A bald eagle dove repeatedly at a coot, seemingly ignoring the other flocks of birds in the lake. The eagle appeared fixated on the singular, small waterfowl. “He was swooping down and trying to ...