Nest building with old cigarette butts

[brian fleming <>]

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