Did you know birds, unlike mammals, do not urinate? Instead they convert nitrogenous waste into uric acid which they excrete in the form of a white paste through their cloaca.
Most birds need to drink water daily. The amount they drink varies on the species and size of the bird. Small birds drink at least twice each day to replace water lost through respiration and droppings. Generally speaking, hummingbirds drink nectar, as it’s sugar-rich and provides the energy required for their high metabolism.
Technically speaking, birds do not pee. Instead, birds excrete urine in a solid uric acid form along with their poop. If you’ve seen a bird poop, then you’ve also seen it pee.
As we know, humans and other mammals get rid of liquid and solid waste separately but do birds do the same?
Birds excrete urine and faeces together through the vent after passing through the cloaca (vent). Cloaca (pronounced klo-A-ca) is from the Latin verb cluo, ‘to cleanse’, thus the noun cloaca, ‘sewer, drain’. So unlike mammals, birds do not have separate exits for their wee and poop.
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