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[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

I think it pissed on her hand. But maybe she's into that shit.

[–] MeatPilot@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Honestly to get the chance to hold a baby hummingbird, I'd let it piss on me too.

[–] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I have hummingbird feeders. Recently I was peeing in my garden and one flew thru my stream.

Does that make me a Disney princess?

Unrelated, I actually have had a songbird alight upon my finger early one morning while watching the sunrise. I screamed and hurled it back into the sky.

[–] pigup@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

Forgivable because it's a baby

[–] AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

It most probably is the juice from the berry.

[–] python@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Do birds piss like that? I thought they just made urates like snakes?

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

I thought about that but then I remembered that what comes out of newborn humans is really weird so I thought hatchlings might also?

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

far as i know they, like all birds, have cloacas

but given their diet i could imagine that they tend to.. leak..

[–] python@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

far as i know they, like all birds, have cloacas

?? Yeah, all reptiles have cloacas... idk why that would have any relevance to what comes out of them though