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Some birds put cigarette butts in their nests. Maybe they want a smell of home or maybe it has become instinctive so quickly. Either way the butts keep down the parasite levels and help the birds to thrive.
The idea is a fake cigarette butt. It would look like the normal kind but being exclusively
made for this purpose it wouldn't end up looking ugly, that being the only real reason people don't like them. These would be orange but would have no color fixative and no other toxic elements except nicotine. They would be made biodegradable and made to fall apart after one or two rains. Something like unbleached toilet paper on the inside and beta carotene on the outside. They could be placed outside in bins for birds to pick up for their nests alongside bird seed.
Butt butt butt
https://nextnature....-you-good-for-birds
Perhaps it's the closest they can get without a thumb to spin the lighter. [whatrock, Feb 29 2024]
ned?
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ned
[a1, Feb 29 2024]
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I can just see the local neds going round scavenging them from birds nests |
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Slang I was unfamiliar with. Where is this a common usage please? |
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In context I guessed it meant someone who scrounges for cigarette butts or anything else, Looking it up gives some close by not quite the same definitions; hooligans? juvenile delinquents? |
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"non-educated delinquents" - mostly used in Scotland, I think. |
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Yes I only heard it in Scotland. Chavs are often said to be the English equivalent but I think there is subtle differences in the definitions |
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