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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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Birds are building nests out of decades-old plastic trash and it’s a record of the AnthropoceneLook inside the nests of Eurasian coots, and you’ll find a surprising history of human plastic production. Much like tree rings hold climate records, bird nests preserve an unintentional archive ...
Plastic waste has let common coots reuse nests year after year. Scientists have now used the trash layers to date how old nests are.
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 ...
More information: Auke‐Florian Hiemstra et al, Birds documenting the Anthropocene: Stratigraphy of plastic in urban bird nests, Ecology (2025). DOI: 10.1002/ecy.70010 ...
If the bird loses the function of its wings ... We found things from Asia, South America and even the UK.' Plastic content inside the stomach of a dead shearwater chick can be seen through the taut ...
Researchers quantified the plastic contamination inhaled by dozens of bird species using laser imaging, then used a calculation called the Polymer Hazard Index to determine its health impacts. " ...
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