A 1994 FIFA World Cup souvenir. A McDonald’s McChicken container from 1996. Decades-old plastic packaging. Look inside the nests of Eurasian coots, and you’ll find a surprising history of human ...
Nest-building isn't just instinct. Birds can learn from others, letting groups within one species develop their own distinctive nest-building... When birds build nests, they're also building a culture ...
Nests are generally thought of as a bird’s home, but it is more appropriate to consider them a nursery for raising baby birds. S.K. Winnicki, a Ph.D. candidate in avian evolutionary ecology at the ...
When building a bird nest in ant territory, the best defense could be an offensive fungus. Swollen-thorn acacia trees are aggressively defended by multiple species of ants. And yet, several species of ...
There's a new camera above the bald eagle nest at U.S. Steel's Irvin Plant in West Mifflin. A tree climber went up to the ...