Drunken birds? Yes, we’re serious. When the wet season approaches in Darwin and the mercury starts to climb, lorikeets get on the drink. Red-collared lorikeets, native to the northern parts of ...

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Bird experts have realised there are actually six different species of rainbow lorikeet Australia is now home to the rainbow, the coconut and the red-collared lorikeet New Guinea and eastern ...

However, if you’re not an avid birder, you may not know that Australia is actually home to a total of seven species of lorikeet. The coconut lorikeet, red-collared lorikeet, scaly-breasted lorikeet, ...

Red-collared lorikeets — a type of parrot — show up every year in Australia acting like they've been hitting the fermented fruit juice a little too hard. Locals report symptoms like "falling ...

Red-collared lorikeets (aka rainbow lorikeets) have been found stumbling around, falling off their perches and showing signs similar to human drunkenness.Lisa Hansen, a veterinary surgeon at the ...

When she came out she saw Raphael’s cage was open, and the red-collared lorikeet was gone. A small black tealight holder was also pinched. A TV and radio were not touched. Ms Ling said CCTV ...

No wait, it turns out Darwin’s infamous staggering red collar lorikeets are not actually intoxicated after all — and it’s taken more than five years for the record to be corrected.

Around this time every year, red-collared lorikeets fall from the heavens on to Australia’s Northern Territory. What’s causing these loopy birds to fly under the influence? Experts suspect the ...