Silicon Valley is using fake birds to save real fish
(World News Science)

If you took a short kayak trip a few years ago to tiny islands nested in former salt ponds near Silicon Valley, you would have found plastic bird decoys all over. The decoys looked like real Caspian terns, a migratory bird the size of a large crow. The goal of those doppelgängers was to lure terns to breed on the islands, and, in doing so, prevent...