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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 ...
9 Nesting Materials That Are Safe to Leave Out for Birds (and 3 That Aren't)
Many people love to support their backyard birds with food and water, but they don’t always realize they can also provide ...
Plastic trash in bird nests documents the Anthropocene epoch
What if expiration dates could tell us more than when something goes bad? Scientists have found that dates on plastic food ...
Idaho State Journal3d
Wood duck nest boxes – a traditional bird conservation project
The male wood duck is one of the most beautiful birds on Earth. We’re lucky we can see them almost any day of the week, any ...
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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine7d
These Bird Nests Are Full of Trash, Including Some That’s 30 Years Old
Inside, they found a candy bar wrapper that ... “There may be way more data in a bird nest than you may realize,” Hiemstra tells Science.