Barbara J. King on Nostr: "'You know, I haven’t really heard of anything like this before,' says ecologist ...

"'You know, I haven’t really heard of anything like this before,' says ecologist Sara Kaiser. She encouraged her student to follow up and search the scientific literature for examples of birds sitting on empty nests as if they had eggs. They found over 200 records of birds of 11 species, all in Europe, showing this strange behavior, and in over 80% of these accounts, the authors had noted environmental pollution as a possible cause." #birds #wildfire #nature #environment https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/is-wildfire-smoke-causing-birds-to-tend-to-empty-nests-180985131/