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

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’ ...

Many of our birds are cavity nesters, that is, they nest in holes in trees and fence posts. Woodpeckers can use their strong ...

He adds that the children take great delight in watching the nests in process of construction, and in the rearing and education of the young birds afterward. As soon as a nest is fairly begun ...