The 'Drunk' Lorikeets Of Darwin

Meera Dolasia
2010-06-07T05:17:12-07:00

Each year around this time, the hospital in Palmerston, Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory is inundated with patients that appear to be totally drunk and disoriented. They however, are not the city's human residents, but the beautiful red-collared Lorikeets, native to the region.