Residents of Constanta in eastern Romania found dozens of dead starlings on the outskirts of the city on Saturday. They alerted authorities, fearing the birds had died from avian flu.
But local veterinary officials decided the starlings had died after eating grape 'marc' - the leftovers from the wine-making process.
The head of the local sanitary and veterinary authority, Dvsva, said that analysis of the starlings' gizzards showed they had died from alcohol poisoning.
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This happened in Northern Ireland too. Berries on a row of bushes froze solid and the ice crystals ruined their internal structure. When they defrosted they began to ferment on the bush where a bunch of birds ate them and snuffed it.
Have they looked into this in the cases in the southern U.S.? Maybe the birds drank too much!
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