The cleanest and grossest beaches in California — and it’s bad news for iconic Santa Monica Pier

Bird poop gives Santa Monica Pier the most polluted water in Los Angeles, while other Cali beaches suffer from raw sewage and ...

Bird owner discovers mysterious houseplant growing near their pet's cage: 'I found this … floating in the water'

Usually, a run-in with bird poop means you're having a pretty bad day. But one Redditor's brush with bird poop turned out to be incredibly lucky. In a Reddit thread on r/houseplants, a user shared the ...

Bird poop halts HS Prannoy’s India Open match, one day after monkey invades stand; organisers left red-faced

Prannoy's match was interrupted briefly on two occasions, but adds to a long list of woes for the Delhi tournament.
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This creature transforms to 'look and smell' like bird poop to evade predators. It's a new species

If there is one thing most people wouldn’t want to stumble across in the forests of the Philippines, a giant spider would probably be one of them. But a pile of bird droppings probably wouldn’t be far ...
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Meet Tony, the Bird Protector of a Texas Prison

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers. Photos from Adobe Stock. A year ago, when I was transferred to the Mark W.
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THIS AND THAT: Stories of bird poop and amazing angels

It seems unlikely that there is a connection between bird poop and angels, but I can attest that there is. Thanksgiving week saw us in Chicago visiting our daughter and her family. Street parking is ...
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These Are Now The Vehicles Birds Poop On The Most In Wisconsin

It seems that every month, new studies are released to find things like the best places to get different kinds of food in every state, the most expensive places to live, the most dangerous places, ...
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Meet the Spiders That Look and Smell Exactly Like Bird Poop

Phrynarachne storozhenkoi was named in honor of the Russian entomologist Sergei Storozhenko. Phrynarachne gorochovi, found on the island of Luzon, is the first of its genus to be documented in the ...
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Scientists Are Tracking Worrying Declines in Insects—and the Birds That Feast on Them. Here’s What’s Being Done to Save Them Both

In Vermont, researchers have investigated the types of creepy, crawly bugs that their avian predators consume and may have found the answers to keeping them both alive A veery gets ready to rise into ...
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‘Cryptic’ creatures, animal hiding as poop as three more new species discoveries

In two national parks in Vietnam, new species were found blending in with tree trunks. Constant J, Pham T-H, Nguyen HTT (2025) ZooKeys The summaries below were drafted with the help of AI tools and ...