Question About Birds

**Lirange** · 03-04-2009, 01:57 AM

Reading XXXHolic and the main guy gave a girl a bird. And she asked if it was a boy or girl, And he said idk.
And it got me wondering.
How can you tell a birds gender?
And how do they reproduce?

**Belaslav** · 03-04-2009, 02:06 AM

One word: Wikipedia.

**Lirange** · 03-04-2009, 02:10 AM

I'm reading
=O

Hazu · 03-04-2009, 02:10 AM

Telling a birds gender depends on the tyupe of bird if I remebere correctly...
such in budgies/parakeets the nostril area (not sure what it's corectly called) is blue for a male and a tannish color for a female.
Only male canaries sing and some have different colors. LIke Red birds / Cardinals only the males are a bright red and females are a brown. (For reasons of survival)
(-used to have birds-)

Mating
egg. The female bird unfans her tail, moves it to one side while the male climbs up onto her back or gets close to her. Their cloacas are pressed together and the sperm moves from the male to the female. This act is called a cloacal kiss. The ovum is fertilized in the female bird's oviduct by a sperm cell from the male bird. The oviduct is a tube that transports the egg from the ovary to the cloaca and where the white of the egg and shell are formed.
(Wiki answers- copy and pasted xD )

:cyeah imweird

**Lirange** · 03-04-2009, 02:16 AM

Oh okay,
thank you very much!
=]

Hazu · 03-04-2009, 02:18 AM