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[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 108 points 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 16 points 3 weeks ago

Seems weird to brag about everything you own being covered in bird poop

[-] probablymissing@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

it's an anti-theft system.

[-] wissenisstmacht@lemmy.world 100 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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.

[-] SalmiakDragon@feddit.nu 40 points 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 9 points 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 22 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago
[-] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 3 points 3 weeks ago

is that why they're assholes, because they're drunk?

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, probably.

[-] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

To quote Bloberta Puppington:

That's just his true nature coming out

[-] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 1 points 3 weeks ago

bibo ergo sum

[-] wissenisstmacht@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, the birds on Aotearoa truly are a special kind of funny. xD

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 18 points 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 8 points 3 weeks ago

Ignorance is Strength

[-] BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 39 points 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 16 points 3 weeks ago

Your to large to be collected and put somewhere safe.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 weeks ago

Theirs a safe spot right over they're!

[-] Sabata11792@ani.social 4 points 3 weeks ago
[-] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 8 points 3 weeks ago

I heard yo mama is too large to be collected and put somewhere safe

[-] glitch1985@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Their genitals aren't exposed like yours was.

[-] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 31 points 3 weeks ago

Oh to be a waxwing bird absolutely zonked on the sidewalk

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago

I mean....take away the bird part, and you have my teenage years to early 20s.

[-] Klear@quokk.au 8 points 3 weeks ago

Are you waxwing nostalgic?

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago

He’ll be here all week. Try the brisket.

[-] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 3 weeks ago

Don't let your dreams be dreams 🥴

[-] quandang@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago

They're not drunk, they're just dead

[-] fartographer@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

They're pining for the Fjords

[-] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it -1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

They are drunk, fermented fruit do have alcohol and it affect animals too ofc

[-] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 weeks ago
[-] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 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.

It tracks that wasps would be mean drunks.

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 3 weeks ago

Excellent organic gardening tips I hadn't heard before. Thanks.

[-] bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 16 points 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 8 points 3 weeks ago

Spring break

[-] DragonAce@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 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, 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 find the gap in the fence where it came in.

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 3 points 3 weeks ago

As a kid we had a cherry tree and you've never seen so many drunk songbirds smacking into walls.

[-] Bluewing@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Everyone just wants to get fucked up.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

How do they not all get eaten by predators?

[-] FishFace@piefed.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

Another comment posted a link claiming they're dead, so probably they do

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 weeks ago

Would those be scavengers then?

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 1 points 3 weeks ago

Some predators will scavenge. Not very advantageous to pass up a free meal.

[-] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago
  1. 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.

  2. there are people putting them in safe places, that may include safe from predators too.

  3. A lot of predators are nocturnal (foxes, owls)

[-] DragonAce@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

Party animals

[-] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago
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