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

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Sibsmum · 29/06/2020 20:27

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....

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WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 01/07/2020 02:32

The Ornithine Cycle sounds like a Prog Rock band.

And their difficult second album would be called 'Guano Pluviatum'.

We noticed a baby pigeon suddenly appear on our drive a couple of weeks ago. It was dead and surrounded by ants and flies and other various hungry bugs. It hadn't been there the previous day, it was gone without a trace the next day, so that's your answer: if they're alive, they're flying or safe in the nest; if they're dead, they fall and get devoured almost instantly.

whiteblue · 01/07/2020 02:57

Can I please jump in here and ask what happens when birds die? You never see dead birds anywhere unless a cat etc has attacked them. There's so so many yet one never falls from the sky, or from a tree etc. Been curious for years.

myBumJuiceSmellsLikeRoses · 01/07/2020 10:25

I have seen birds just dead on the ground.
Maybe street cleaners pick them up in towns, but I've seen them.

notimagain · 01/07/2020 10:50

There's so so many yet one never falls from the sky, or from a tree etc. Been curious for years.

They certainly do fall dead out of trees, for example we saw a dead fledgling blackbird on the ground under a local oak tree a day or two ago.

In the countryside the scavenging wildlife makes pretty quick work of any corpses.

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