Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!whuts!picuxa!gpasq
From: gpasq@picuxa.UUCP (Greg Pasquariello X1190)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: a strange experience with a Cedar Waxwing
Keywords: behavior
Message-ID: <661@picuxa.UUCP>
Date: 28 Aug 88 17:52:57 GMT
References: <9139@ihlpa.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: gpasq@picuxa.UUCP (Greg Pasquariello X1190)
Organization: AT&T/EDS Product Integration Center
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In article <9139@ihlpa.ATT.COM> harolds1@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Schessler) writes:
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>Something very strange happened the other day!

[ Strange waxwing behavior deleted.]

Believe it or not, Cedar waxwings (and some other species) that feed on 
fruits (i.e cherries etc) will often become drunk from the fermenting
berries!  Possibly, the waxwing was inebriated!

At my parents house, robins would occaisionally get drunk and do all kinds
of strange things.  One once flew in small circles on the ground for 2 or
3 minutes.




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