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Tipsy birds hold up flights
27 July 2006
Flights at Jackson Atlanta International Airport are being held up by drunken birds.
The cedar waxwing birds are eating berries from bushes near to the airport which cause them to act as if they are drunk, reports the Clayton News Daily.
Ken Martin, the airport's environmental compliance manager, explained to the newspaper that the birds would collapse around the airport only to fly off when approached.
He said: 'These little birds kept flying around and acting crazy. They were flying all over the entrance road and disturbing people as they drove into the airport.
'Sometimes you could walk up thinking one of these birds was dead. Then you got to it would be alive and fly off.'
A simple solution has been found to stop the birds; simply cutting back the bushes where the berries grow.
A series of other measures have also been brought in at the Atlanta airport to reduce incidents and delays involving animals.
Models of owls have been set up to scare smaller birds and rodents and fake bird calls are sounded to imitate predators and scare animals away.
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The cedar waxwing birds are eating berries from bushes near to the airport which cause them to act as if they are drunk, reports the Clayton News Daily.
Ken Martin, the airport's environmental compliance manager, explained to the newspaper that the birds would collapse around the airport only to fly off when approached.
He said: 'These little birds kept flying around and acting crazy. They were flying all over the entrance road and disturbing people as they drove into the airport.
'Sometimes you could walk up thinking one of these birds was dead. Then you got to it would be alive and fly off.'
A simple solution has been found to stop the birds; simply cutting back the bushes where the berries grow.
A series of other measures have also been brought in at the Atlanta airport to reduce incidents and delays involving animals.
Models of owls have been set up to scare smaller birds and rodents and fake bird calls are sounded to imitate predators and scare animals away.
© Adfero Ltd
