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

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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....

Birds have a metabolic pathway called the Ornithine Cycle.

Essentially urea is excreted as eggshell.

Quite an efficient system really

@PaddyF0dder

Birds have a metabolic pathway called the Ornithine Cycle.

Essentially urea is excreted as eggshell.

What about male birds though?

err, eggshell is calcium

When it comes out purple is that just because they've been eating blackberries?

I've three birdies and it all comes out together.

So my car is covered in piss & shit as opposed to just shit. I always thought birds had the shitz and now I know.
As an aside-it’s a shame we humans can’t do the poop piss combo.

@otterbaby were you watching the Coopers in Rio on Nickelodeon today too by any chance...?

Great question!
I’m 51 and it only occurred to me the other day to wonder why sparrows only mate with other sparrows, blackbirds with other blackbirds etc. I asked my 87-year-old DM and she didn’t know either.
Can anyone enlighten us?

Wee and poo are mixed. Then the little bastards expel it all over my clean washing!

This is the plus point of "Lockdown" who of us would even have spent a millisecond considering the question of bird wee!

In other random bird facts, did you know that birds don't actually sleep in nests?

DH told me this once and I was so outraged I came on here to ask. Turns out that birds build a nest, lay their eggs and raise their young in it, then abandon the nest and cling to the branches all night with their twiggy little legs instead fools

I was outraged by that fact

I only found out a few years ago that owls don't poo. I was amazed.

So now we are away from bird wee to owl poo - who would have thought that lockdown would raise such fascinating topics- (If they don't poo, how do they get rid of the dead mouse bones, fur, skin etc)????

@otterbaby I knew this bit didnt rememebr I knew it until I read that post.

cloaca

I feel like I've read this information on mn before. See educational innit

@PaddyF0dder
Ornithologist perhaps
Hmmmn tweaking moustaches channelling Poirot

@FinlandFlag me too.
Why don't you see baby pigeons?
I love birds.
Except crows and seagulls 😂

@IgiveupallthenamesIwantedareg0 they regurgitate little balls.

I’ve been shat on enough times to assume it’s all in one.

I don’t own birds but any tree I stand under tends to have a large one in it that’s keen to use me as a loo.

Should have added, cockatoo’s actually aim for you. That’s no joke, true.

with chickens all comes out as a single 'plop' - more or less liquidy on occasions, I presume dependent on ratio of pee to poo.

Wee
I was shat on by a bird once, presumably a seagull as we were in a seaside town. Just about to go in a restaurant for dinner.
Everyone thought it was hilarious. I felt physically sick bleugh
I'm still waiting for the luck it was supposed to bring. Oh hang on....
I guess it was the worst shit I got for a while

Parrot owner here, can confirm birds do wee but its uric acid in a paste.

To the poster asking if poop changes colour after eating blackberries... Yes it can. Salad makes the poop watery and greener too.