The Bohemian waxwing, a Yukon songbird that feeds on fruit, becomes
inebriated on fermented berries and gets into drunken flying accidents.
The Animal Health Unit headquarters in Whitehorse places the avian
lushes in specially equipped drunk tanks to protect them from
themselves.
The tiny cages have water and bedding and are kept quiet and dark so
that the waxwings can sober up. Some of them are hardcore - one of the
birds recently arrived still smeared with the residue of alcoholic
berries.
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