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

The most striking discovery was a nest built on an abandoned foundation pile in Amsterdam’s Rokin canal. Over decades, it had ...

Mars bar wrappers, McDonald's packaging, face masks and much more plastic waste is being reused by some water-dwelling birds ...

Researchers reconstructed the history of an unusual 30-year-old bird nest based on the expiration dates printed on plastic ...

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

Coots' nests in Amsterdam are built using discarded plastic, providing a time capsule into the material's use over the past ...

A bald eagle dove repeatedly at a coot, seemingly ignoring the other flocks of birds in the lake. The eagle appeared fixated on the singular, small waterfowl. “He was swooping down and trying to ...