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How does a bird poop?

Updated: 10/8/2023
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14y ago

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Toucans are like other birds and excrete a single waste product that is a mixture of feces and uric acid. In mammals the uric acid is dissolved in water to make urine, but in birds such as toucans it is excreted as a white paste or powder that comes out with the fecal matter. They pass waste products through an opening called the vent.

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15y ago

The same way we do. Chickens excrete waste through the cloaca or vent. This is the same place the egg comes from but closes off during the few minutes while the egg comes through.

The small intestine while long is not curled up as much as in humans and the large intestine is very short. This is one reason why the chicken feces is so soft. Birds excrete solid and liquid waste out of the same hole. This is another reason birds basically always have diarrhia. Birds can also not control when the excrete waste, so they don't actually target cars.

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Yes birds do.

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They don't urinate through a separate orifice. In birds and reptiles there is generally one opening which serves or feces, urine, reproduction and egg laying. This opening is called a cloaca.

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Like the reptiles, birds are primarily uricotelic, that is, their kidneys extract nitrogenous wastes from their bloodstream and excrete it as uric acid instead of urea or ammonia via the ureters into the intestine. Birds do not have a urinary bladder or external urethral opening and uric acid is excreted along with feces as a semisolid waste. However, birds such as hummingbirds can be facultatively ammonotelic, excreting most of the nitrogenous wastes as ammonia. They also excrete creatine (C4H9N3O2), rather than creatinine (C7H4N3O) like mammals. This material, as well as the output of the intestines, emerges from the bird's cloaca. The cloaca is a multi-purpose opening: waste is expelled through it, birds mate by joining cloaca, and females lay eggs from it. In addition to waste discharge from the cloaca, many species of birds, such as owls, regurgitate pellets of undigestible parts of their prey.

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14y ago

Waste (urine and faeces) come from a combined exit called the cloaca.

Eggs come from another exit.

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12y ago

Through it's rectum (vent) just like us humans.

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7y ago

They would soon die if they didn't. Food in - waste out. As to how, it all comes naturally.

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14y ago

Just Like People

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14y ago

cloaca

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