Do birds wee? ( sort of light hearted - so I don't seem really dim)

[Sibsmum]

I have been wondering. I mean we occasionally get bird poo on the car or on the Windows ( usually straight after they have been cleaned) but do they wee?
Have I been walking around for years and just been incredibly lucky to have escaped avian urine!?
Maybe they only see when it rains and then we might never realise....

[ForTheLoveOfCatFood]

I need to know the answer to this - I had never considered this before!

[Gulabjamoon]

Maybe their poo combines wee? Is their poo called guano ? YANBU so you don’t feel dim.

[letmethinkaboutitfornow]

I am joining the club! Never thought of it before! 😂😂😂

(Shamelessly off to google it!)

[otterbaby]

I'm pretty sure the wee and poo are mixed together! Comes out of the cloaca. Don't ask me why I know that...

[Originalyellowbelly]

Not as such, their wee is mixed in with their poo, so you get two for the price of one.

[crispysausagerolls]

My favourite thread on MN of all time

[chockaholic72]

I used to have two pet cockatiels and I don't think they do - I think it all comes out in one runny mix of wee and bird poo. Fact - cockatiels poo roughly once every 15 mins...

[letmethinkaboutitfornow]

Have no clue why this has come up for you OP, but definitely curious!!!

Mammals remove excess nitrogen from their bodies by converting it to a dilute solution of urea, stored in the bladder. Birds convert nitrogen to uric acid instead: this is metabolically more costly but saves water and weight, as it is less toxic and doesn’t need to be diluted so much.

Ref: www.sciencefocus.com/nature/do-birds-urinate/

[TheNinjaWife]

Bird pee and poop comes from one exit hole at the same time.

[NotEverythingIsBlackandWhite]

No they don't wee. All their waste is combined and passes through their anus.

Google is your friend.

[yetanothernamechange22]

Their droppings consist of three parts, the faeces which are a greenish brown paste, the urates (solidified urine) which are a white paste and sometimes liquid urine. Liquid urine isn't always present. It's more likely to be present if the bird has eaten fresh food or had a bath. Birds have a cloaca so everything comes of the same hole at the same time.

[BoreOfWhabylon]

Baby birds produce their waste all wrapped up in a little package, nice and tidy. The parents pick it up and fly off to dispose of it.

[crispysausagerolls]

Google is your friend

Spoil sport!

[GreyGardens88]

They also mate via the cloaca. Efficient system.

[Sibsmum]

So they do both through the same , thingy, at the same time?
So they do wee, but it gets mixed up with poo?
I am still 😕

[Dogsanddrums]

The urine combines with the faeces and comes out as a runny poo from the cloaca. The white ‘topping’ on bird poo (sorry) is the urine. The cloaca is also where eggs come from

[honeylulu]

Poo and wee mixed (guano). Comes out of the cloaca (also used for reproduction).

[MrsEricBana]

Coo (boom boom) that is so interesting and not something I had much considered but I will look at bird poo in a new light.
So, in Kronk's New Groove, WHY is the lady called Miss Birdy-Poo?

[Nottherealslimshady]

They have one hole that all waste exits at the same time, they also mate and lay eggs through the same hole.

[AreYouLocal2]

Just like lizards. Pooh is black the white bits are uric acid (pee).

[WowOoo]

Yes, they tell you to wash bird mess off because the acid can corrode paintwork.

They seem to have one hole down there that does the lot! I’m glad I don’t have a cloaca.

[LakieLady]

Wow, every day's a school day on here!

[Sibsmum]

Ohhhhhh. I wonder why we always call it bird poo then? It seems weird that we do.
Maybe we should be calling it poowee? ( I think guano sounds like they pop lizards)

[0Muggle0]

The white part of the poo is the wee! The black is the poo.

[Starbuggy]

I learned this recently from another AIBU thread about a MNer getting upset about chicken poo on an egg. As a result of the same thread I also watched a video of a chicken laying an egg which was oddly fascinating. Every days a school day on MN