Yukon Puts Inebriated Birds In Tiny Drunk Tanks

A waxwing indulging in a dangerous party drug.

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.

When intoxicated birds are brought
to the territory’s Animal Health Unit, they are kept isolated
in these units until they can  return to the wild.
Government of Yukon

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.

There's a drunk bird video here.

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