Fermented winter berries can intoxicate fruit-eating birds in spring, causing balance issues and impaired flight. Frugivores like cedar waxwings and Bohemian waxwings are most at risk due to high ...

The relaxed feeling you get after a cold beer or a glass of wine is down to the ethanol content of the beverage. This is a naturally occurring substance produced by the fermentation of sugars. For ...

A town in Minnesota has a problem with drunks nearly being hit by cars. The drunks in question aren't people, however. They're birds. Officials say an early frost caused berries to ferment earlier ...

Police in a small northern Minnesota community have been taking some strange calls about birds that seem to be intoxicated. Citizens in Gilbert on the state's Iron Range have reported the birds flying ...

Robins, cedar waxwings and other birds in Gilbert, Minnesota, are flying into windshields, bumping into trees and looking mighty disoriented. Police there say there's no need to worry -- the birds are ...