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While watching birds, it is not uncommon to see one poop. It takes the form of a whitish fluid which is a mixture of solid and liquid waste. It is not urine.<\/p>\n

Although, I have long watched local hummingbirds, I have never seen them discharge anything — nothing. That is, until this last week when my camera caught various hummingbirds discharging a liquid.<\/p>\n

But, it was different than that of other birds: it was drops of a mainly clear liquid. Turns out that the primary foodstuff eaten by a hummingbird is nectar (sugar water). They extract the sugar from the nectar and expel the excess as urine.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A male Black-chinned Hummingbird pees.
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