@JaneJohnsonBakr I was (very very) briefly SO UPSET about this photo, but then I read the text and was delighted. Thank you for posting this!

@JaneJohnsonBakr In Montreal we had the same issue with 18-20yr old Bostonians. :)

@JaneJohnsonBakr Here in New Zealand it’s the #kererū (wood pigeons) that get into that kind of trouble, like these unfortunate specimens: https://youtu.be/AusFJRJcXi0

@JaneJohnsonBakr oh my... 👀

@JaneJohnsonBakr oh no. oh dear. https://reddit.com/r/birding/comments/108ilhf/drunk_waxwings_fake_news/

@JaneJohnsonBakr The neighborhood family of Raccoons would get into the mushy apples under the neighbor's tree every year with similar results. 😆

@JaneJohnsonBakr LOL. legalize fermented fruit

@JaneJohnsonBakr Oh to be a waxwing bird, lying insensible and drunk on the pavement!

@JaneJohnsonBakr Drunk birds. I love it!

@JaneJohnsonBakr this is really funny, it reminds me to the marula fruit which is eaten by several animals in Southern Africa for the same reason 😅 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sclerocarya_birrea

@JaneJohnsonBakr cc @glassbottommeg

@JaneJohnsonBakr My mother told me that crows would do that sometimes, but not to the point of passing out.

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When I lived in Houston Texas the mockingbirds would get drunk on fermented figs, stagger along the top of our redwood fence, and eventually tumble off.

@JaneJohnsonBakr - That’s a wild party. 🥂🍻

@JaneJohnsonBakr WTF🤣🤣🤣
They need a dry January like me.

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Hah! Sounds like my neighbourhood 🤣

@JaneJohnsonBakr this is so cute 😄 here in Australia a similar thing happens when #lorikeets munch on overripe figs and then stagger around the place babbling to themselves before lying down for a snooze 😅

@JaneJohnsonBakr @gutocarvalho so they are alive?!? Fascinating!

@JaneJohnsonBakr it me

@JaneJohnsonBakr this is apparently fake. https://glitterkitten.co.uk/@doot/109673166727186362

@JaneJohnsonBakr @sonyajean26 imagine collecting drunk birds to bring inside your apartment.

@JaneJohnsonBakr this is so good 😂

@JaneJohnsonBakr This is so interesting. They do this in Canada too

@JaneJohnsonBakr
Pigeon do that in Kansas. Corn spilled along tracks that get rained on ferment. Pigeon will drop out of the sky and stagger around.

@JaneJohnsonBakr there's a parable here ... But I'm an Al Anon person and I'm just worried for their children

🤦🍾

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Unfortunately I'm pretty sure this is #FakeNews

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Wild animals can't get drunk.

Civilization rocks.

@JaneJohnsonBakr Sorry, its fake
https://konkret24.tvn24.pl/polska/to-sa-pijane-jemioluszki-nie-oto-co-przedstawia-zdjecie-i-gdzie-powstalo-6624499

@JaneJohnsonBakr I thought it was only the ones at my neighbor’s. They show up masse and eat his juniper berries and then wobble around or pass out in the branches for a while.

@JaneJohnsonBakr Every day I learn how much humans and wildlife are alike 😉- this is silly and precious. Thank you to all who picked up these lil drunks and put them in a safe place.

I think this article (to which I'm replying) is cc YOU @alexismadrigal :) :) I was delighted to just read your rescued cedar waxwing flew away and was fine. :) HT @JaneJohnsonBakr

#CedarWaxwing #DrunkBirds

@JaneJohnsonBakr I, too, like to do this. Wish I lived in Poland. The US doesn't care.

@JaneJohnsonBakr Where do I sign up? 🤔

@JaneJohnsonBakr @crecente@mastodon.games.ngo 😂

@JaneJohnsonBakr I don’t want to think what would happen here, but I know.

@JaneJohnsonBakr do they give them little bloody Marys when they wake up? 😆

@JaneJohnsonBakr I saw the pic first, assumed them to be dead, started reading, and became joyously relieved. Thank you for sharing!

@JaneJohnsonBakr On that note, I can go to bed. 😂

@JaneJohnsonBakr what? This is so cool!

@JaneJohnsonBakr ahhh we've all been there, right? lol

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Wouldn't it be better to put them in a place where you have gathered their family and friends to that you can stage an intervention when they wake up?

#MissedQuoteBoost

@JaneJohnsonBakr 🤣

@JaneJohnsonBakr Of only we were as nice to humans!

@JaneJohnsonBakr we've all been there.🤷‍♂️

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I guess they can identify easily.
Still quite a humanistic story!

@JaneJohnsonBakr sure, waxwing birds do it and it's adorable; I do it and it's a misdemeanor!

@JaneJohnsonBakr This is so kind!

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I didn't know I needed this factoid in my life but lol I did :owi:

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I knew there was a reason I loved waxwings!

@JaneJohnsonBakr Those silly birds

@JaneJohnsonBakr that is so sweet that people pick them up and put them out of harms way while they sober up

@JaneJohnsonBakr it's fake and the sad thing is that the birds are dead so nothing funny here

@JaneJohnsonBakr lol cute. I bet they get cute little hangovers too. 😵‍💫

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You gotta love these birds!! I thought I was the only one who did that!

@JaneJohnsonBakr I need more information on this in order to justify my identical behavior

@JaneJohnsonBakr @kendragarden “Help me, Bob, I’m bully in the alley…”

@JaneJohnsonBakr Unfortunately this is fake news- can you delete?

@JaneJohnsonBakr also, are they drunk or dead (because they ran into a tree)?

@JaneJohnsonBakr We had Cedar Waxwings who eat fermented crab apples and then laid drunk on our porch. They need AA.

@JaneJohnsonBakr I wonder if they would do that with humans.

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I so love learning random Polish things. I didn't find out I was Polish until my 30's & had no exposure to the culture or people.

@JaneJohnsonBakr Mondays

@JaneJohnsonBakr ah so they are the Russians of birds 😏

@JaneJohnsonBakr My spirit animal!

@JaneJohnsonBakr i love these guys! One of my favorite birds on the planet.

@JaneJohnsonBakr When we had apple trees, in autumn the groundhog that lived in our backyard would eat the fermented windfalls and stagger around bumping into things. It was very entertaining!

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@JaneJohnsonBakr
Bohemian waxwings on the Canadian prairies. They like mountain ash berries.

@JaneJohnsonBakr I had squirrels that got drunk on fermented crab apples...hilarious.

@JaneJohnsonBakr Bro, where are we?

We had lunch in the bike lane again. It’s ok, Jane moved us.

Dude, she’s awesome.

@JaneJohnsonBakr Drunk parrots in Australia, too. https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2011/10/drunk-birds-inebriation-in-the-wild/

@JaneJohnsonBakr In Florida the robins come down here in the winter and eat Brazilian pepper berries that are over ripe and do the same thing. Too funny

@JaneJohnsonBakr this is freak ghoul behavior

@JaneJohnsonBakr my spirit animal!

@JaneJohnsonBakr I guess they're not doing Dry January 😉

@JaneJohnsonBakr lol. Threw me for a curve. At first I thought they had succumbed. Thankfully they’re just lushes

@JaneJohnsonBakr My daughter’s friends called her an Uber last weekend and sent her home. Better than driving her own car but not what I would consider a safe place.

Coming back as a bird.

@JaneJohnsonBakr This has never happened to me. I mean, the collecting and being put in a safe place until I sober up. The rest, well, yeah, I got that.

@JaneJohnsonBakr
"I was the shadow of the waxwing, drunk!
In the false azure of the loud and punk;
I was the smudge of drunked feathered fly-
-ing birds in the inebriated sky.

(If you're one of Nabokov's heirs, I'm very, VERY sorry.) #poetry

@JaneJohnsonBakr Some humans are known to do that

@JaneJohnsonBakr
People too.

@JaneJohnsonBakr looks like any English town on a Friday night

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Unbelievable!

@JaneJohnsonBakr
omg! is that true?!
how long it takes them to recover?!

@JaneJohnsonBakr this is awesome and so wholesome! I wonder how many #natureisdrunk instances are out there.

@JaneJohnsonBakr @Harryshelper I have found my tribe!!

@JaneJohnsonBakr love this... We have a similar thing with Wood pigeons in NZ

@JaneJohnsonBakr Looks like they'll need some tweetment at the next AA meeting. 🥂

@JaneJohnsonBakr I’m not sure whether I love this evidence of the sparkling beauty and kindness or humanity, or I just want to be a waxwing bird right at this moment. Either way, thank you for sharing.

@JaneJohnsonBakr A recent Redit post has called this as fake news 🤔

@JaneJohnsonBakr @jay here ya go.

@JaneJohnsonBakr i’m sorry but it’s a #fake, here is the article about it, in Polish but it’s easy to use deepl.

https://konkret24.tvn24.pl/polska/to-sa-pijane-jemioluszki-nie-oto-co-przedstawia-zdjecie-i-gdzie-powstalo-6624499

@JaneJohnsonBakr @rombat same

@JaneJohnsonBakr I have been to music festivals where the camping area looked somewhat similar. 😀

@JaneJohnsonBakr they are so cute! Thanks for sharing!

@JaneJohnsonBakr In Australia it’s the Rainbow Lorikeets…they get drunk on nectar - or are having a super high sugar rush! They get louder the drunker they get.

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I'd like to see a link to some verification for this story. Just because it's in a Tweet, doesn't make it true.

I tried to Google this and can't find any documentation of anything more than unusual alchoholic induced behavior, nothing about passing out on sidewalk to the point of humans having to move them.