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Laittakaa meemejä tänne.
This seems to be and old hoax / fake news photo. Only one bird survived. They were not poisoned but hit by a vehicle.
https://fakenews.pl/en/general/waxwings-visible-in-the-photo-are-dead-not-drunk-with-alcohol/
Birds do occasionally get ethanol poisoning from frozen/fermented fruits though. Since they are small, the dosage is often lethal.
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.
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. 😅
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.
Ignorance is Strength
Do look up kererū thoigh, real birds that do this every summer in New Zealand x)
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/drunk-kereru-fall-from-trees/PLJ7VXPXRSRDVFENWEDBCHA4TU/
Wonderful behaviours survive evolution without natutal predators
Also wasps.
is that why they're assholes, because they're drunk?
Yeah, probably.
To quote Bloberta Puppington:
That's just his true nature coming out
bibo ergo sum
Yeah, the birds on Aotearoa truly are a special kind of funny. xD
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.
Seems weird to brag about everything you own being covered in bird poop
it's an anti-theft system.
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
Your to large to be collected and put somewhere safe.
I heard yo mama is too large to be collected and put somewhere safe
Theirs a safe spot right over they're!
Aw'shit
Their genitals aren't exposed like yours was.
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.
Pro tip: tack a brown paper bag up where the wasps make a nest. They'll think it's a hornets nest and fuck off.
You can also buy fake hornets nests to hang up, and they work really well. I put one up next to a rather large nest, and within 24h they were gone and had dismantled their nest completely
I've also heard that roach spray along where they build nests will deter them, but I dislike pesticides.
Excellent organic gardening tips I hadn't heard before. Thanks.
I had a huge elderberry tree in my backyard at my old place. There was always a murder of crows, some bluejays, a few raccoons, 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
Oh and the first time ever seeing an armadillo in the wild was watching one take 45 minutes stumbling around my yard trying to figure out how to get back out of the gap in the fence where it came in.
They're not drunk, they're just dead
They're pining for the Fjords
They are drunk, fermented fruit do have alcohol and it affect animals too ofc
My bad.
i didn't thought that someone would lie about something this stupid so i didn't even checked :/
Note for the next time: check
Oh to be a waxwing bird absolutely zonked on the sidewalk
I mean....take away the bird part, and you have my teenage years to early 20s.
Are you waxwing nostalgic?
He’ll be here all week. Try the brisket.
Don't let your dreams be dreams 🥴
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?
Everyone just wants to get fucked up.
As a kid we had a cherry tree and you've never seen so many drunk songbirds smacking into walls.
Spring break
Party animals
How do they not all get eaten by predators?
Another comment posted a link claiming they're dead, so probably they do
Would those be scavengers then?
Some predators will scavenge. Not very advantageous to pass up a free meal.
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.
there are people putting them in safe places, that may include safe from predators too.
A lot of predators are nocturnal (foxes, owls)
There were coyotes that hunted up and down the banks 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.
Me IRL
