Brian:

I have heard that about Texas birds and I strongly suspect it is a result of muddled eyesight due to all the broken bottles of tequila with some of the contents being consumed by the hapless birds.

Up here in Wisconsin, Darwin's law has taken effect and our birds don't have time to get tipsy due to the rapid advance of winter weather. Some of the people hereabouts that still hand sew have gotten into the habit of keeping a partial birds nest in the yard and when they have to thread a needle, they stick the needle in the birds nest, run the thread close to the needle, and sure as shooting, some bird is going to take that loose piece of thread and thread it thru the needle. It is not a matter of superior intellect of our birds, but a compulsive, neurotic, behavior of sober birds.

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