The Cool Down on MSN23h
Biologist stunned by unusual materials found packed inside bird nest: 'The oldest layer is as old as me'
"The oldest layer is as old as me — all my life, a bird was nesting here," said Auke-Florian Hiemstra, a biologist at the ...
ZME Science on MSN13d
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 ...
Science News2d
Plastic ‘fossils’ help scientists reconstruct the history of bird nests
Plastic waste has let common coots reuse nests year after year. Scientists have now used the trash layers to date how old nests are.
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WATCH: 'Nestflix' livestream of rare birds building nests in Cork
Members of the public can now tune in again this year to ‘Nestflix’, two new livestreams which show pairs of Chough as they go about building their nests, raising their young and carrying out noisy ...
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Plastic Triggered a New Geological Epoch—and the Evidence May Be in Bird Nests
In fact, this has already begun: Researchers revealed the history of bird nests in The Netherlands by scrutinizing plastic litter used in the nests’ construction. Many different birds ...
Smith: Nest boxes help put wind beneath birds' wings
Nest boxes help many species of birds, including eastern bluebirds, tree swallows and wood ducks, by providing protection ...