Woody Nightshade berries question

[jennyb]

Does anyone know if the berries of Woody Nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) are poisonous to birds? I know they are poisonous to us.

Jenny

[Alan]

In my book it says that the berries are only 'mildly' poisonous to children. So would imagine they're ok for birds.

[jennyb]

Interesting. My book just says 'poisonous'.

My parents always used to warn me about them when I was a kid, but I guess you would always teach children to be safe rather than sorry.

Thanks for checking.

Jenny

[nightshade]

There is a thread on the site about this interesting subject the main concensus is that seeds and the fruit surrounding them work to ensure as far as possible the seed in not wasted in feeding an animal but ejected asap to promote the species.
In many cases seed and animals have evolved together,wheras we are comparatively recent,birds for instance have a short quick digestive system ours is long so poisons have more time to actwhile they only cause the seed to be ejected from the bird
Diffrent seeds have different stratageys for survival some are poisonous to everything!