0
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.
Still curious? Ask our experts.
Chat with our AI personalities
Coach
Lao
JordanThe 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.
The Quick Answer:
Yes birds do.
However ...
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.
The Details:
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.
Waste (urine and faeces) come from a combined exit called the cloaca.
Eggs come from another exit.
They would soon die if they didn't. Food in - waste out. As to how, it all comes naturally.
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
What culture considers bird poop good luck?
The Italian culture considers bird poop to be good luck.
What is the pH of bird poop?
Very.
What is Lucky number when bird poops on you?
It isn't lucky to have bird poop on you.
What spider looks like bird poop?
A spider of poop
What actors and actresses appeared in Bird Poop - 2011?
The cast of Bird Poop - 2011 includes: Flint Beverage as Audition Director Herion Mustafaraj as Harry
Is bird poop white?
Yes, bird excrement is white. We don't know why, but yes
How do you say bird poop in creole?
poupou zoizo
What does bird poop taste like?
Bird poop i smade of the sit they eat now dont go outside and try to fguir
What bird does not poop?
There is no such bird. Any bird with a properly functioning digestive system will release parts of food that it does not need in the form of waste (poop). The only thing that would cause a bird or any living creature not to do so is constipation, which again is an unhealthy condition.
What are facts about eagles?
they are the state bird in kansas They do stuff
What is the colour of bird poop?
Brown, black or white.
What kinds of birds visit a bird feeder at different times of the year?
common winter bird
