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From Mexico to New Zealand, Europe to the remote Galápagos islands, researchers have observed an odd behavior of numerous bird species that we are only now potentially beginning to understand: They ...

At first blush, the concept of birds gathering cigarette butts could be seen as unusual, even alarming. Why would birds intentionally pick up waste from humans? But scientists have discovered that ...

Darwin's finches in the Galápagos, house finches in Mexico and song thrushes in New Zealand have all developed a curious habit: They put cigarette butts in their nests. Some songbirds in Britain are ...