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Birds are building nests out of decades-old plastic trash and it’s a record of the Anthropocene
There’s something else that’s unusual about how birds use plastic ... and then hauled 15 nests to the lab for analysis. The most striking discovery was a nest built on an abandoned foundation ...
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Birds' Nests in Japanese Houses
He adds that the children take great delight in watching the nests in process of construction, and in the rearing and education of the young birds afterward. As soon as a nest is fairly begun ...
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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 ...
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The Exquisite Bird's Nest Soup: A Luxury of Chinese Cuisine
Bird's nest soup is one of the most expensive and sought-after dishes ... of the solidified saliva of these birds, giving them a unique, gelatinous texture when cooked. The collection of these ...
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Birds’ nests reveal history of the plastic age
Nest researcher Auke-Florian Hiemstra stumbled upon a bird nest that appeared to go back 30 years in time – filled with historical plastics. His discovery of successive layers of plastic in birds’ ...