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how human trash in Australian bird nests changed over 195 years

  • Written by Kathy Ann Townsend, Senior Lecturer in Animal Ecology, University of the Sunshine Coast
how human trash in Australian bird nests changed over 195 yearsThis, if you can believe it, is part of a magpie nest. Kathy Townsend, Author provided

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