This seems to be and old hoax / fake news photo. Only one bird survived the ethanol poisoning from the fruits.
Naughty birds
Submitted 2 months ago by LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone to memes@sopuli.xyz
https://piefed.cdn.blahaj.zone/posts/cM/wL/cMwLwxfPrCN2VED.jpg
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wissenisstmacht@lemmy.world 2 months ago
SalmiakDragon@feddit.nu 2 months ago
From the Summary of the article you linked (emphasis mine):
A photo of waxwings, which became popular in the Polish Internet space, shows dead birds that died as a result of a collision with a bus shelter in Ukraine. Their arrangement indicates that they flew in a compact formation. Therefore, it is unlikely that the collision occurred as a result of coordination disorders after ingesting alcohol.
wissenisstmacht@lemmy.world 2 months ago
True, I mixed that up after reading the article because I dug into birds and ethanol poisoning and by the time I posted the comment I had forgotten, that the birds from the photo were unrelated to ethanol poisoning.
Thanks for pointing that out. I added misinformation on top of a good source. 😅
mapu@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Do look up kererū thoigh, real birds that do this every summer in New Zealand x)
www.nzherald.co.nz/…/PLJ7VXPXRSRDVFENWEDBCHA4TU/
Wonderful behaviours survive evolution without natutal predators
wissenisstmacht@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, the birds on Aotearoa truly are a special kind of funny. xD
jballs@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I reject your reality and accept OP’s reality - where these birds are alive and happily drunk. Sorry, but that’s just the world we live in now.
wissenisstmacht@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ignorance is Strength
BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh sure, they’re allowed to get drunk in public and pass out on the sidewalk, but when I do it it’s a misdemeanor
Sabata11792@ani.social 2 months ago
Your to large to be collected and put somewhere safe.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Theirs a safe spot right over they’re!
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 2 months ago
I heard yo mama is too large to be collected and put somewhere safe
glitch1985@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Their genitals aren’t exposed like yours was.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 2 months ago
Oh to be a waxwing bird absolutely zonked on the sidewalk
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I mean…take away the bird part, and you have my teenage years to early 20s.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Don’t let your dreams be dreams 🥴
quandang@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They’re not drunk, they’re just dead
fartographer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They’re pining for the Fjords
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 months ago
They are drunk, fermented fruit do have Alcohol and it affect animals too ofc
probablymissing@lemmy.world 2 months ago
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 months ago
I used to have a couple of pear trees in the yard of my old house, and I learned to pick up any fruit that fell on the ground. If I didn’t, the juice would ferment under the skin, and wasps would pierce the skin, drink the juice, and get drunk.
It turns out that wasps get real belligerent when drunk, and I’d go out to work on my garden and have to run back into the house for cover from some drunken wasp.
Who would known? Actually, probably everybody. It tracks that wasps would be mean drunks.
bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Oh to know what goes through a birds mind when it’s gotten blackout drunk and woke up someplace else. Do you think they sang their ex’s name?
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Spring break
DragonAce@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I had a huge elderberry tree in my backyard at my old place. There was always a murder of crows, some bluejays, and a couple of fat opossums that would get drunk off of them every year. The crows in particular would become very vocal when drunk. LOL
grue@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How do they not all get eaten by predators?
FishFace@piefed.social 2 months ago
Another comment posted a link claiming they’re dead, so probably they do
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Would those be scavengers then?
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
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in an urban environment, predators are usually more scarce than in rural environments, and the ones that do live in urban areas won’t touch any prey animal if there’s a human nearby.
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there are people putting them in safe places, that may include safe from predators too.
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A lot of predators are nocturnal (foxes, owls)
DragonAce@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There were coyotes that hunted the bznks of the large creek that ran behind my house. They would often chase prey into the neighborhood, but they would never pursue, they would figure out ways to go around. They also would hunt in packs during the winter and even then. they never came into neighborhoods or yards.
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Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Party animals
Bluewing@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Everyone just wants to get fucked up.
Etterra@discuss.online 2 months ago
As a kid we had a cherry tree and you’ve never seen so many drunk songbirds smacking into walls.
Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Me IRL
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 2 months ago
The elites don’t want you to know this but the waxwing birds at the park are free. You can take them home. I have 458 waxwing birds.
fartographer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Seems weird to brag about everything you own being covered in bird poop
probablymissing@lemmy.world 2 months ago
it’s an anti-theft system.