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Nest building with old cigarette butts

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Subject: Nest building with old cigarette butts
From: brian fleming <>
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:40:49 +1100
I recollect a news item picked up in the old "Wildlife Magazine" edited by Crosbie Morrison, back in the 40s or early 50s. At a country sports meeting, a smoker threw down a butt, which was promptly picked up by a Zebra Finch and carried into a half-built nest. Unfortunately, it was still burning.. I don't recall if the burning nest actually started a grass fire when it fell out of the tree.

Anthea Fleming

On 3/01/2013 10:54 AM, Andrew Thelander wrote:
Here's a link to Biology Letters for all the smokers on birding-aus. What 
happens to your discarded butts in urban areas? Has anyone ever seen Aussie 
birds using butts in their nests?

http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/9/1/20120931.short?rss=1

Andrew






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