Does a farmer feeding beer to turkeys bother you?

[jberryhill]

6. Birds eat fermented fruit in the wild regularly

Obviously, he is not poisoning them.

Some birds do metabolize alcohol in a way that makes them drunk, which also happens naturally during certain seasons to birds who eat fruit:

http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/drunk-animals-inebriation-in-the-wild.htm

They stagger all over the place, can't keep steady on their perches, and fall head first into their food bowls. Meet the lorikeets under vet Dr Stephen Cutter's care.

He's used to riding out the drunken parrot season before the rains each year, when scores of intoxicated red-collared lorikeets (Trichoglossus rubritorquis) are picked up off Darwin's streets and brought to the Ark Animal Hospital in Palmerston. But this year is so bad he's calling it "a massive outbreak".