They just can’t get enough of them fermented berries!
Thousands of drunks are smashing into windows at Karlstad University, but it isn’t students blowing off steam.
Instead, birds feasting on fermented berries are getting drunk and playing chicken with the glass.
Thousands of waxwings began gathering in the trees outside the university late last week to feast on ripening rowanberries. The birds haven’t learned to say when.
“So far some 50 drunk birds have lost their lives when crashing into the university’s big windows,” University spokesman Hans Jensen said. “But the worst is over, the berries are beginning to run out.”
First you have to get the birds to recognize that they have a problem. A waxwing intervention if you will. If St. Francis were here I’m sure he could explain it to them.