This seems to be and old hoax / fake news photo. Only one bird survived the ethanol poisoning from the fruits.
Naughty birds
Submitted 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
SalmiakDragon@feddit.nu 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Yeah, the birds on Aotearoa truly are a special kind of funny. xD
jballs@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Ignorance is Strength
BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Your to large to be collected and put somewhere safe.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Theirs a safe spot right over they’re!
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
I heard yo mama is too large to be collected and put somewhere safe
glitch1985@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Their genitals aren’t exposed like yours was.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 3 weeks ago
Oh to be a waxwing bird absolutely zonked on the sidewalk
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I mean…take away the bird part, and you have my teenage years to early 20s.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Don’t let your dreams be dreams 🥴
quandang@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They’re not drunk, they’re just dead
fartographer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They’re pining for the Fjords
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
They are drunk, fermented fruit do have Alcohol and it affect animals too ofc
probablymissing@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Spring break
DragonAce@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
How do they not all get eaten by predators?
FishFace@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Another comment posted a link claiming they’re dead, so probably they do
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Would those be scavengers then?
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Party animals
Bluewing@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Everyone just wants to get fucked up.
Etterra@discuss.online 3 weeks ago
As a kid we had a cherry tree and you’ve never seen so many drunk songbirds smacking into walls.
Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Me IRL
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Seems weird to brag about everything you own being covered in bird poop
probablymissing@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
it’s an anti-theft system.