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Bedtime Wonders

Writer's pictureDiana Ross Sumalinog

Do Birds Pee?



Hello there! So tonight, I decided to take a break from mystical stories because I'll share with you one of the "possible" wonders that may or may not come into your mind. Last night, I watched Animal Planet's "How do animals do that?" program, and there's this one question that really caught my attention. "Do birds pee?" All my life, this question has never gotten into my mind. Few of you may probably know the answer already, but I know many of you are pretty excited to see the answer.


Birds have a strange method of disposing of the waste their kidneys clean from their circulation system.


The explanation you don't see birds peeing is because they don't. Their pee is joined with their poop in such a two-for-one arrangement.


To understand the process, we should initially take a gander at how mammals do it. Our kidneys pull overabundance nitrogen from our circulation system, convert it to urea and store it in the bladder, which at that point purges it out through the urethra.


Like humans, birds have kidneys that do the critical job of removing the nitrogen, except for the ostrich. Birds don't have a bladder. They convert the nitrogen into uric acid instead, mixed with solid waste from the intestines, and expelled. Uric acid also is the reason why bird poop is white. So next time, If you've seen a bird dropping, you've also seen their pee.


Did you know?



Bird droppings can make an incredible added substance to manure or fertilizer. It is high in phosphorus and some different supplements that plants love. It, by and large, shouldn't be utilized alone as manure because, all set, it can consume your plants. However, It can also contain some dreadful microbes that are pretty harmful to us, so it should be utilized cautiously and consistently in a fertilizer mix.



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