One Bird Nest, 30 Years of Human Trash
Auke-Florian Hiemstra, a doctoral student at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands, has spent years studying how birds use human materials in their nests. Much of his research involves collecting abandoned coot nests and painstakingly logging their contents: drug paraphernalia, earbuds, windshield wipers. “Everything that ends up in the canals in Amsterdam most likely … Read more