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Title
Headphones, saw blades, coat hangers: how human trash in Australian bird nests changed over 195 years
Published by
The Conversation
DOI 10.64628/aa.sth5a5knd
Authors

Townsend, Kathy, Potvin, Dominique

Abstract

A world-first study inspected 900 bird nest specimens from 1823 to 2018. The types of debris the birds use reflect changes in Australian society over time.

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Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 225. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 October 2026.
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#215,492
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#23,121
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Altmetric has tracked 34,559,526 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 213,875 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 98.8. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% of its peers.