John Hiatt, conservation chairman for the Red Rock Audubon Society, holds the remains of a Say's Phoebe, a native bird which was found in the base of a PVC pipe mining claim marker near Las Vegas on Nov. 3, 2011. (Bill Hughes/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)

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PVC mining markers killing birds in Nevada

Plastic pipes sticking upright in the ground tend to attract cavity nesters.

• By The Associated Press
• December 14, 2021