Citizen Scientists Track How Plastic Pollution Impacts Birds.
Donnelly-Greenan has seen some disturbing items in the stomachs of remote seabirds: bottle caps and even toy army men in the bellies of albatross, for example. The risks of plastic pollution aren’t confined to ingestion, either. Even airborne birds become the bycatch of abandoned fishing lines. But Donnelly-Greenan, a marine biologist at the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories in California, is assembling public data to do something about it.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2020/01/28/plastic-pollution-birds/
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