Why do most birds have white scat?
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Actually, the white in bird excreta is their urine. Birds excrete uric acid instead of urea, as their way of getting rid of nitrogen.\n\nBirds have a cloaca, a common passage for getting rid of waste, where the urine and scat mix before being excreted. The darker bits in bird messes are the scat.
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Yes they do. Look out below.\n\n*edit* I grew up in Wyoming along a migration root for Canadian Geese. There were some species that would winter in our lakes as well so we had geese year round.\n\nI can tell you that they poop in flight because through the years many of my friends and myself had our cars dive bombed while driving. A few had the misfortune to get hit themselves.\n\nIt doesn't hurt, goose poopie is soft, like a grey green pudding. It's just embarassing, especially when it's 10 degrees outside and it literally becomes a "steaming pile" on your head.\n\nElaborate enough for ya?
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they don't. if it had feather then it would be probably a bird and not a reptile.
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Yes, Birds can cover MANY miles each and every day. When they stop to feed, drink or bathe they pad around in water. Most often nothing sticks to the birds, but there are the times that eggs and materials stick on their feet and legs. This most often happens with ducks and their webbed feet.
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It came from East Asia and is now spreading allover Europe. Many waterbirds already died and also poultry on a farm in France. They said humans can´t get it but some people in Turkey died from it.
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no they dont crap as much\na dove is any bird in the family Columbidae, and a pigeon is in that family\nso actually the pigeon is a dove\nthe common pigeon is the species C. livia which is called the rock pigeon and was previously called the rock dove
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ok\n Hoatzin chicks have archyopterix-style claws on their wings\n\nPuffin`s beaks are not as colourful out of the breeding season\n\nThe Goatsucker (no, not el Chuppacabra, the bird!) of the USA is called a Nightjar in the UK\n\nAmerican Robins are not related to european Robins, they are in fact a type of thrush\n\ncormorants have to open their wings to "dry" them as they`re not as waterproof as other waterbirds.
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I think they're few in number because birds really don't live that long, or have too many babies, so they only need a certain number.  I'm sure they're large in size because they have to nourish the baby birds inside after the egg leaves the mom's body, unlike human babies, who get their nourishment straight from the mother.\n\nI'm not sure if that's right, but I hope it helped.
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Birds fly south because it is instinct. I hope that answers your question.
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This is by far one of the funniest question I ran into yet!\n\nwell when an animal goes to the bathroom(take a Sh*t) and it gets stuck in their fur (hair) and hangs(usually dried Sh*T). This is considered a dingleberry
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As a bird, they have more freedom and less prey. Being a bird, you can enjoy the wind in your face and the changing atmospheres where as being a fish is a constant atmosphere, surely they get sick of it!
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You have put this question under mythology and folklore, so I'll answer it in the same vein, rather than going on about the more probable causes such as the birds had been fed by humans or that magpies like shiny objects (you are not a shiny object, are you?)\n\nIn old Norse folklore unexplained or "weird" behaviour of animals were sometimes visitations by spirits.  In the Icelandic sagas are stories of human ghosts taking on animal form (ie the ghost of Killer Hrap taking the form of a seal with human eyes in Laxadalen Saga),  or of "fetches": manifestations of guardian spirits, often in animal form (a goat in Njal's saga).\n\nThe chances are you are reading too much into things and the birds are just being curious.
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Most birds have a cloaca, which is the same for males and females and is also used for both uriination and defecation. The only bird known to have a penis is a species of duck.
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Chickens, being primarily diurnal (day living) birds (a group that tends to have good vision and colour acuity) probably have at least some ability to distinguish colour.\n\nThe usually drab markings of most chickens (especially wild Galliformes like grouse) are probably more for camoflage than due to an inability to see colour.  There are some Galliform avians that definitely have bright plumage for mate attraction, indicating that colour vision is present in those species (most notably Pavo cristatus - the Peacock), so it's likely that chickens can too.
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Here's all I could find ... maybe it can get you started?\n\nWhite Stork - a silent bird - White Storks hardly ever give voice. In the world of birds it is an uncommon situation.  Stork’s lower larynx – birds’ vocal organ – is so retarded in development that it does not produce sounds.\n\nhttp://birds.poland.pl/didyou/article,White_Stork_a_silent_bird,id,95312.htm
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If it's a medium-sized, rather ugly mottled black/brown bird that congregates in the evenings to form a roost community then it may be grackles.  They have no song, just a rather raucous squawking call and when they gather by the hundreds in the trees nearby, they are a nuisance of the first order.  Much worse than pidgeons.  We have them in Texas and I believe that at different times of the year they plague most of the US.
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Yes, all birds have gizzards. In most birds the food passes rapidly through the glandular stomach (proventriculus) and stays for some time in the muscular stomach (gizzard) while the gastric secretions (pepsin, HCl and mucus) are at work. In most species the gizzard is complex and has two pairs of opposing muscles. However, birds of prey and Ciconiiformes have a simpler muscular stomach. Also, some birds have a third chamber below the muscular stomach (pyloric stomach), for instance many aquatic species. \n\nCheck this 1997 paper about the gastrointestinal physiology and nutrition of wild birds, it has drawings of the digestive tract of different species (free access):\nhttp://docstore.ingenta.com/cgi-bin/ds_deliver/1/u/d/ISIS/29326609.1/cabi/pns/1997/00000056/00000003/art00028/B9A3D9F840D5656211481333362A0ED16C47E714CF.pdf?link=http://www.ingentaconnect.com/error/delivery&format=pdf )\nIf the link doesn't work, download from here: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cabi/pns/1997/00000056/00000003/art00028\n\nOther references:\nSeasonal changes in gizzard size:\nhttp://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Condor/files/issues/v092n03/p0794-p0795.pdf\nLess muscular gizzard in birds that eat pollen and nectar (abstract only):\nhttp://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/90/paper/ZO9900581.htm