Birds in the Wild

[*YoungGuyver]

This video shows birds in the wild, on an island 2000Km away from mainland.  It's interesting.  An eye opener.  I never would have expected to find this.

 

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[LordSpleach]

That's some bird's nest.

[*YoungGuyver]

That's not a nest.  That's a corpse.  The plastic was in the belly, forcing it to starve to death as there was no more room for food.  The plastic would not pass through.  The surrounding material is feather and bone.  2000 Km from human contact.  This is the garbage we throw in our oceans

[LordSpleach]

Sorry, when I clicked the link last time, it only showed the still shot of the corpse that was laid like a bird's nest. My internet has been bad lately.

[*Jess♥]

fascinating.

so we may see evolution in action here. survival of the fittest. in terms of behaviour of course.

we will see the birds that choose not to eat plastic, survive.

it's amazing to see nature at work.

[Bio-Boosted Dude]

I saw this earlier today as well, pretty shocking stuff. The lighter is what really made me go "what the hell". Pretty unfortunate, but pretty cool in a horrible sort of way I would rather not admit

[*YoungGuyver]

Yes.

It's amazing how much plastic we've actually thrown into the ocean.

http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_58030.shtml

 

It's not just the birds being subjected to the plastic.

[*Jess♥]

hmmm, that is certainly more of an eye opener.

I was lamenting a couple of weeks ago, a package that was made of paper and plastic all glued fast together. it was impossible to separate. I was very frustrated. I mean, even if I could separate them, we don't have separate bins for plastics here.

we should do. but we don't.  I think I need to lobby our council to sort it out. but they seem to be cutting their budget for garbage collection lately so it seems like an impossible task.