One man’s trash is a common coot’s treasure, at least when it comes to plastic. In Amsterdam, the birds have been constructing nests out of plastic food wrappers, masks and other waste for at least 30 ...

Researchers reconstructed the history of an unusual 30-year-old bird nest based on the expiration dates printed on plastic waste in the structure. Reading time 3 minutes Plastic may have started a new ...

After two plastic-bashing columns (Plastic is Permanent Pollution and Plastic Part II Solutions), I’ll wrap up this little series with some beneficial uses of plastics. Common coots are wetland birds ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. In the city centre of Amsterdam, a seemingly ordinary bird nest tells an extraordinary story of ...

VADODARA: Wild life division of Chhota Udepur arrested three men for illegally hunting common coot (bhagatdo) at Khedakarmasia village near Ajwa on Friday. Those arrested are Ganpat Rathodia, Pratap ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American One of the birds I see most regularly here in ...

Coots, the Rodney Dangerfields of the bird world, just might start to get some respect as a result of a new study showing that these common marsh birds are able to recognize and count their own eggs, ...

Coots, the Rodney Dangerfields of the bird world, just might start to get some respect as a result of a new study showing that these common marsh birds are able to recognize and count their own eggs, ...