a Clutch.
A turkey's crop is a pouch that has a thin wall and is part of the bird's esophagus. Food is stored in the crop, where it is softened.
The crop of any bird is a pouch in the throat where food it stored. You can feel the crop when the bird has eaten a large amount by touching it's neck about a half an inch from the bottom of the beak.
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I beleive it to be Manioc because of the high yield and it could thrive in tropical soils, but I could be wrong
The crop is a pouch that is part of the esophagus. It is a temporary storage space for food while the bird is eating. After the bird is finished, then the food in the crop is passed to the stomach where it is digested.
It is called a 'crop' and stores food prior to digestion. Birds that feed their young can regurgitate food from the crop.
Crop
It's called a CROP. click the link below for reference http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/crop
A bird's crop is a food storage organ located at the base of the throat. It temporarily stores food before digestion in the stomach. This allows birds to eat quickly and then move to a safe location to digest their food later.
Don't know what bird this could be, certainly not a cardinal. I would suggest getting a good field guide and looking through it, because I can't think of any bird fitting that description.
Rice is not a good treat, snack, or food for birds of any species.Why? Because the first stop in a birds digestive system is the crop. In the crop, food stops to be pre-digested, and to help be ground down. When rice stops here, it expands. Now, in small quantities (1/4 cup or less per dual purpose chicken, much less for smaller birds) once a week with no other similar source (oats, bread, etc) this is relatively harmless. However, in larger quantities, it can EASILY kill the bird.This is because when it expands in the crop, it stops the movement of the digestive system. This can cause -Complete crop stasis. This is were the crop does NOT move food and the bird starves. Does its' crop feel very hard? Are its' stools watery and clear? If so, the bird has crop stasis.Sour Crop. This occurs when food in the crop doesn't move and sours.This can be detected by smelling the birds breath. Is it foul? Does its' crop feel like a water filled balloon? If so, it has sour crop.These two conditions can affect a single bird at the same time. When it does, the crop will present as sour crop, and the birds stools will be watery, green, and VERY foul smelling.Bacterial and Fungal infection. The two above often lead to severe bacterial and fungal infections of the digestive tract, which kill wild birds and can be hard to treat in domestics.Birds DO NOT explode when given large amounts of rice.