Eurasian coots are round, black waterbirds with distinctive, chicken-like feet. Each year, these birds typically build new, ...

"There is mounting research." Wildlife experts issue dire warning after disturbing discovery made in bird's nests: 'A plague ...

Plastic waste has let common coots reuse nests year after year. Scientists have now used the trash layers to date how old nests are.

What if expiration dates could tell us more than when something goes bad? Scientists have found that dates on plastic food ...

Many different birds, including the common coot ... to be studied using the stratigraphy of dateable plastic debris in the nest.” Leiden University’s Auke-Florian Hiemstra collected over ...

Spring is an important time of year for birds to get cracking laying eggs and raising chicks. But first things first they need to build their nests. Each species of bird brings its own style to its ...

Birds often incorporate human-made materials like plastic, wire, fishing line, and other debris into their nests, either due to a lack of natural materials or because they mistake them for ...