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One Bird Nest, 30 Years of Human Trash. A coot’s nest reveals that what humans throw away doesn’t really go away. By Emily Anthes. ... “Suddenly we had this big realization.

Big birds — over about 2 pounds if they are sedentary and 2 ounces if they migrate — laid smaller “clutches” of eggs at a time and lost more chicks from those nests.

"It just was this very big ball of metallic, nasty bird spikes," Auke-Florian Hiemstra, naturalist and PhD candidate at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands, told Scientific ...

Dutch doctoral student Auke-Florian Hiemstra excavated a bird nest, and made a startling discovery. From McDonald's lids to face masks, the nest was built with layers of human trash — the oldest ...

Birds make nests over front doors, on porches and patios, even on cars. If you can’t leave it alone entirely, here’s how to keep one safe.

The nest, which is positioned 120 feet up a pine tree, has been in active use since the fall of 2013, according to Friends of Big Bear Valley (FOBBV), the group that set up the camera.

When T.S. Roberts wrote the last really big Minnesota bird book in 1932, “Birds of Minnesota,” ravens were dwindling, bald eagles were scarce and most everyone assumed the giant subspecies of ...