Mars bar wrappers, McDonald's packaging, face masks and much more plastic waste is being reused by some water-dwelling birds ...

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

but it might also be fundamentally impacting the evolution of certain species. “The common coot is a wetland bird that in The Netherlands originally built its nests of plant materials which ...

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.

Bhubaneswar: While the early onset of summer is forcing many migratory birds to take a return flight earlier than usual this ...