[NatureNS] Re: Drunken Oriole

Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:52:43 -0400
From: "Margaret E.Millard" <mmillard@eastlink.ca>
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Well, that is it then. A drunk rowdy oriole.
http://margmillard.ca
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From: "Brian Dalzell" <aythya@nb.sympatico.ca>
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Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2008 4:09 PM
Subject: [NatureNS] Re: Drunken Oriole


> Margaret E.Millard wrote:
>> Do orioles, well  birds in general, get drunk? it is sitting at the 
>> top of the grapevine singing its heart out at the moment!
>> Marg Millard, White Point, Queens
>> http://margmillard.ca
>>
> I remember doing the Wolfville Christmas Bird Count about 20 years ago, 
> and coming across a flock of 40-50 drunken robins in a pear orchard.  
> Some of the pears had been left on the trees, and they had all 
> fermented.  The robins had partaken and were singing like a bunch of 
> rowdy sailors on shore leave, and flying very erratically -- and there 
> were a couple of orioles with them doing the same.
> 
>

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