Imagine a tropical paradise where the birds don’t sing—they crunch. On Australia’s Lord Howe Island, mutton birds are so stuffed with plastic they sound like a bag of chips when you poke them. Scientists found one poor chick with 778 pieces of plastic in its gut, turning these seabirds into feathered landfills. It’s a gut-punch reminder that our plastic obsession is choking the planet, one crackling bird at a time.
Australian Island Birds Are So Full of Plastic They Crackle and Crunch
