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Officials from Gilbert, Minnesota, warned that birds – "drunk" berry fermented earlier than usual this year – are flying in windows and cars.
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They collide with windows. They rush into cars. They "act confused". Apparently, Gilbert's birds, in Minnesota, are flying under the influence.
The Gilbert Minnesota Police Department announced this week that authorities have received several reports of "inebriated" birds in the community, who have been intoxicated by "some berries" that have fermented earlier than usual this season, the police department said Tuesday in a public notice. .
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An early frost has "accelerated the fermentation process," officials said. "Many birds have not migrated south, which seems to be more prevalent than in the past. It seems that some birds become a little more "drunk". "
The youngest, in particular, have more difficulty handling their alcohol. According to the Gilbert Minnesota Police Department, the younger the bird, the less its liver can effectively handle the "toxins" contained in fermented berries, officials said.
According to the Washington Post, some species of birds – such as blackbirds, cedar waxes and thrushes – are more likely to become drunk from fermented berries. These birds prefer berries to insects and generally abuse them before flying south for the winter.
"However, from time to time, some birds do too much."
According to the Smithsonian Magazine, nested birds are also known to communicate differently. Researchers at Oregon Health and Science University have discovered that alcohol can spoil the "language" of birds, much like humans do.
"Most birds are probably a little drunk, and very few people would be able to identify them as intoxicated," said Meghan Larivee, coordinator of Environment Yukon Laboratories, a government agency. in 2014. "From time to time, some birds do too much."
That said, overeating berries can be deadly for birds. At least 50 cedar wax birds in Texas have died after eating fermented berries from an Ilex shrub, reported the National Audubon Society, an environmental organization, in 2011. The amount of ethanol found in the berries was "sufficient to produce intoxication in these birds behavior could have resulted in fatal trauma," found the National Wildlife Health Center.
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With regard to the birds that are wreaking havoc in the city of Minnesota, "they should calm down in a short time," said the police department, jokingly residents should not call the authorities about birds to unless they see "Woodstock pushing Snoopy out of the niche for no apparent reason," if "Big Bird [is] driving a motor vehicle in a dangerous way ", where locals see" Angry Birds laugh and laugh uncontrollably and look happy ".
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