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Vandals_handle @lemmy.world

1y ago

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

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Best pooping pic I’ve seen all day.
- Uh, I don't want to know

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

Buteo Butt Blast
- Well put! Stealing that for future use.

Right when he is dropping a deuce.
- 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?
  
  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.

Good hawk picture.

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