Dutch doctoral student Auke-Florian Hiemstra excavated a bird nest, and made a startling discovery. From McDonald's lids to ...

An advertisement for the 1994 World Cup, fast food wrappers, COVID-19 masks—what birds used to build their nests reflects a ...

This process of layered accumulation of contemporary human waste is also known ... and too much plastic in the nest increases the risk of entanglement for the birds, sometimes resulting in death.

Contrary to its name, the common coot is no ordinary bird. Contrary to its name, the common coot is no ordinary bird. These plump, black-and-white birds have made themselves at home in the canals ...

Lacking vegetation, the birds populating the canals of the Netherlands' capital use refuse to build their nests; a ...

The solution: some human-built steel nesting boxes made especially for the ospreys. Instead of dismantling the nests, workers ...

But a resourceful few are homesteading on abandoned osprey nests in Cabo ... photographing birds in a fetid landfill in Beja, Portugal. "I was surrounded by human waste of all sorts.