Last year Hiemstria and others published a "stratigraphy" of the Anthropocene using birds' nests, where they found human materials. Here, the author notes that birds using anthropogenic materials have been an object of interest for quite a while: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Feathered architects: Collecting histories of anthropogenic material in birds' nests
Numerous examples of birds incorporating artificial or anthropogenic materials into their nests – from anti-bird spikes in the Netherlands to fiber op…
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