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Collage of plastic nests by post on Instagram. (a) Eurasian Coot Fulica atra in Amsterdam canals, and bird nests with chicks (b,c) in Delft (The Netherlands) and India, (d) bird nest on a citric tree in Sicily (Italy). Photocredits (profile name of the person, social media used, link to the picture): (a) plasticsoupfoundation, Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/p/BTWmIeMBXH2/, (b) fandouille22, Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/p/B05QelolXZZ/, (c) anna_pdy, Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/p/Bh-3FhGBbWI/, (d) ggiiorgiia, Instagram, https://www.instagram. com/p/B-t8Oc_lWHe/ (all accessed on 26 December 2021).
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Plastics are widely distributed in all ecosystems with evident impacts on biodiversity. We aimed at examining the topic of plastic occurrence within bird nests. We conducted a systematic search on three social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter) to fill the gap of knowledge on plastic nests worldwide. As a result, we observed nests w...
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... 52% (n = 26) of the selected posts, the bird species was reported and identified, while in the other 48% (n = 24) this was not reported. The most commonly reported species were the Eurasian Coot Fulica atra (Linneus, 1758) and the Swans Cygnus sp., respectively 50% and 7.7% (Figure 1 Among ecological guilds, nests made by water bird species (50%; n = 17 taxa) were the most representative rather than synanthropic and forest species (11.8%; n = 4 and 8.8%, n = 3, respectively) (χ 2 = 19.94; df = 2, p = 0.0001). ...
