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

a period in Earth's history marked by the widespread impact of human activities on nature. The Eurasian coot, a round and black waterbird with a white beak, is a common sight in the Netherlands ...

FIFA World Cup souvenir. A McDonald’s McChicken container from 1996. Decades-old plastic packaging. Look inside the nests of Eurasian coots, and you’ll find a surprising history of human plastic ...

The Eurasian coot is a common bird in the Netherlands and can be found ... This phenomenon is called a ‘technostratigraphy’: a contemporary deposition of human junk (pop-up example). ‘The Anthropocene ...

Missouri’s falconry hunting season opened February 11 for ducks, coots and mergansers ... So far in Missouri, there has only been one recorded case of bird flu in a human - that case was the first ...

While it has been reviewed by human transcribers ... Lest you think Eric is an old coot talking about the kids today, he then explains that as a 30-year-old millennial, he has never been able ...

Many different birds, including the common coot, have started incorporating human-made food and drink packaging into their nests. This allowed three biologists to reconstruct the individual ...

She lives up to her duties by loading her pets, pig Pua and rooster Heihei, on her boat and exploring other islands for signs of human life ... Grouchy old coot Kele (David Fane) will maintain ...

Rather than joining in, we want to pay attention to non-human beings around us through birdwatching ... mallards with turquoise heads, and coots with white beaks and plump bodies through binoculars ...