The berries of mountain ash and hawthorn which are left on trees acquire a specific consistency and ferment because of temperatures drops and rises, becoming a kind of “alcoholic product”. Having eaten those thawed and fermented berries, birds get drunk and can’t navigate: they crash into cars, buildings, fall from branches. How to help the poor birds tells the portal Sib.Fm.
Ok, you’ve heard numerous stereotypes about vodka and bears in Russia, but drunken birds? That’s something new into collection of wild rumours about Russia 🙂