Do birds urinate?
A normal bird dropping has three separate components. However, since the bird passes a dropping out of one orifice, the vent, all three portions of the dropping are mixed in the cloaca before being evacuated from the body. The first portion is called the feces, which is solid and worm-like, and may be dark green in color (usually in seed-eaters), or brown (usually in pellet-consuming birds.) Feces may be other colors, as well, depending on what the bird has recently consumed. For example, certain berries will cause the feces to take on the color of the fruits ingested. It can be alarming if droppings suddenly appear reddish in color, as this may be interpreted as blood, so it is important that owners keep track of what their bird is consuming, so that color changes can be correctly evaluated. If a bird doesn’t eat any solid food for about 24 hours, the fecal portion of the droppings will become dark, dark green (that is almost black) and very sticky and tarry. This is often mistaken fo
