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Seabirds in the Pacific are using plastic to build nests

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Natural History Museum (UK)

Publication Date
2018-10-26

As brown boobies incorporate materials they find in the environment into their nests, research has found that the birds can act as indicators of the extent of plastic pollution in the tropics.

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http://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2018/october/seabirds-in-the-pacific-are-using-plastic-to-build-nests.html