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’ nests, from different periods, has now been published in the scientific journal Ecology.‘You flip through these nests, like through pages of a history book, uncovering the past.’ The Eurasian coot is a common bird in the Netherlands and can be found in all the canals of Amsterdam. Traditionally, they don't reuse their nest, as these were built from fast decaying plant…
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