Researchers reconstructed the history of an unusual 30-year-old bird nest based on the expiration dates printed on plastic ...

Eurasian coots are round, black waterbirds with distinctive, chicken-like feet. Each year, these birds typically build new, ...

Birds, like humans, have found that plastic lasts longer than plant-based materials. Water-dwelling coots, seeking to make do in urban settings, are now taking advantage of this, researchers say.

Despite the apparently minimal costs of parasitism—limited to incubating an extra egg—the two coot species that play host to over 80% of the duck's eggs frequently reject them from their nests.

The single-day exercise was conducted by 71 volunteers under the aegis of Mysore Nature led by A. Shivaprakash, a well-known ...