Seabirds only poop when flying
| They captured about 200 "defecation events," almost always while the birds were flying and frequently just after takeoff. In fact, the birds let loose with the feces every four to ten minutes while in flight, excreting roughly 5 percent of their body mass every hour. As for why the birds choose to poop mid-air rather than when they are floating on the ocean surface, Uesake hypothesizes that it might be a way to avoid fouling their feathers or attracting predators.
| https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00818-8?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0960982225008188%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
| So that g/u/rl who claims to be a seagull and threatened ME with rounding up a bunch of her older seagull friends to cover my kitchen in droppings I've got a truth nuke for you: My kitchen ain't large enough for you to fly in. Checkmate atheist bird!
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arLOH51TfAI
| *frantically nails the windows shut*
| no because i saw a bird shit on my car in half life ² and it was standing still
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| Leo Uesake of the University of Tokyo was studying the biomechanics of sea birds has proven with scientific accuracy that shearwater birds only defecated while in flight (see video above).
Uesake and co-author Katsufumi Sato of the University de la Rochelle in France strapped small backward-facing cameras roughly the size of an eraser to the bellies of 15 streaked shearwaters for their experiments.