Red-tailed Hawk, Upper Newport Bay, Orange County, California

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11 Comments

dulcemaria@lemdro.id · 12 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Best pooping pic I’ve seen all day.

Vandals_handle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Uh, I don't want to know

aport@programming.dev · 9 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Buteo Butt Blast

Vandals_handle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Well put! Stealing that for future use.

1847953620@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y

without my glasses I thought it was two hawks doing the nasty

not_that_guy05@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (4 replies)

Right when he is dropping a deuce.

Vandals_handle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Caught in the act but is it a deuce? All waste comes out at once from the same orifice. Does not go number 1 or number 2 (deuce). Maybe it's a trey?

dirthawker0@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

There's a urine component (white liquid) and a fecal component (black/dark solid matter). In raptors, nearly all excretions will have both, and will only lack the fecal when the bird hasn't eaten for a while, like 24 hrs or more.

Vandals_handle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

TIL, thank you. Can see both components. What about owls who regurgitate pellets? Is the pellet just the indigestible bits and the rest excreted?

dirthawker0@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

That's correct. And fyi not just owls but all the raptors regurgitate pellets.

xc2215x@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

Good hawk picture.