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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 ...
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Unique Birds Hatch At Zoo Miami!
March has been a banner month for the Bird Department at Zoo Miami! Several species of unique birds have hatched since the ...
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Birds are building nests out of decades-old plastic trash and it’s a record of the Anthropocene
Plastic is no longer just a supplement to their nest-building — it has become the primary construction material. There’s something else that’s unusual about how birds use plastic. Coots, like many ...
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These Birds Decorate Their Nests With Trash—Here’s Why
The Italian ecologist knew the trash hung from the nests of a certain bird, the black kite. But why? Many species of birds decorate their nests to attract a mate—but kites already have partners ...
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Spring is for nesting: How birds build nests
and/or presence of ecto-parasites all combine to make nests in museum collections unique, enduring, intimate records of bird behaviour.' These nests are vital to improve our understanding of nest ...
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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 ...