Food wraps, surgical masks, headphones and even windshield wiper … It is a true collection of rubble that coots in the Amsterdam center put their eggs. “Anything that falls into water [of the canals] It is likely to be used for nests, “said Auke-Florian Hieiemstra, biologist at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, Netherlands.” In this highly urbanized area where nature is almost absent, the only material that coots have in their disassosal. “
Curious to know the content of these “modern” nests, symptomatic of the “age of the plastic”, the researcher and his colleagues dissected around 15 of them just after the 2021 playback season. Inside, they found several hundred artificial debris, many of which were food wrapping and some twigs here and there, “but you really had to look for them,” said Hiemstra.
It was upon discovering a Mars sweet wrapping located at the bottom of a nest that biologists realized that their work had tasks in a completely new dimension, becoming a true archaeological excavation through the remains of several decades of waste. In the plastic wrapping of the chocolate bar there were several elements that demonstrated that I was about 30 years old: an author of 1991, a 1993 logo of the Fédération International of Football Association (FIFA) and an announcement of the 1994 Way FIFA.
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