a regular asked question, do birds eat the coffee berries

Do birds eat coffee berry's is a question that we get a lot in the coffee tours.

I did see that buff throated Saltators and the blue headed Parrots in our coffee farm like  to eat the skin of the berry, nice and sweet. They leave the beans , so in a way they help us , then we don't have to peel the berry...
It is absolutely not a big problem, it is not like a huge swarm of Thrushes and Starlings...like in Holland, eating a lot of cherries or damage the Prunes or red Berry's or Strawberries.
Two days ago I did see at least a group of 20+ bay headed Tanagers eating the skin of the coffee berry's, that was new for me..with them a bunch of Warblers , mixed group of Wilson's Warbler Tenessee Warblers and Philadelphia Vireo's, yellow throated Vireo and our own rufous capped Warbler...I did not see these little fellows eating the skins , but they came more for the insects...that safes me some insect bites while picking our coffee.

This picture shows you the "damage" of the Berry's.....

The big group of Bay headed Tanagers were very loud after that, flying around...caffeine???