How do birds mate?????

Question

How do birds mate?????

Answer 1

male sperm fertilizes female eggs.

Answer 2

During breeding season in response to the hormones, the male's testes become several hundred times larger than normal to produce sperm, with the left testis usually larger. The female bird's ovaries also enlarge during breeding season to produce the ovum. Female birds usually only have one functional ovary, the left one.

In birds, an ovum is fertilized in the female bird's oviduct by a sperm cell from the male bird. Once fertilized, the ovum becomes the nucleus of the egg. The egg, that has its own food source, the yolk, will be laid by the female into her nest, incubated, and then the baby bird will hatch.

But how does the sperm from the male bird get into the female? How can they have intercourse without any external male organs, such as a p***s? The male's sperm, produced in the testes, passes to the cloaca where it is stored until copulation (act of s*x). The female also has a cloaca that leads from the ovaries. 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 sperm is stored by the female for at least a week, in some species over a hundred days. Then as each ovum from the ovary moves into the oviduct, it gets fertilized with the stored sperm, producing a clutch of many eggs, all with the sperm from that one cloacal kiss.

There are a few species of birds where the males do possess a retractable p***s that can be pulled back into the bird. These birds include ostriches, cassowaries, kiwis, swans, geese, and ducks. Since waterfowl sometimes make love while in the lake or pond, the p***s helps ensure that the sperm is not washed away by the water.

Sperm can be transferred from male cloaca to the female in a blink of an eye - less than a second. Some birds seem to want to linger longer though, sometimes having s*x for more than an hour! And, although it is not necessary to copulate frequently since the sperm is stored within the female, remember those hormones are still making the birds excited. Many pairs of birds will mate numerous times within a few days

Answer 3

Depending on which birds you mean of course -  a Lovebird will err.... do it in flight!  my Dad used to breed them in an avery and this is what we used to watch out for.

Useless information, but there you go :)

Answer 4

To heck with all that fancy talk.  The male and female birds both have what is called the cloaca.  The male mounts the female, she moves her tail to the side and the cloacas come together.  The male deposits the sperm into the female where it lives for nomally 10 days. In a few days the female will lay her eggs.   It is done very quickly, but they do not do it when they are flying.  That statement was just hogwash.  Normal clutch size (number of eggs) is usually 2 to 4 eggs.  Anyone can write down what they read online or in a book. I see it happen every day in breeding season.

Answer 5

They go for a walk in the Park "AND HIDE IN THE TREES".

Answer 6

They actually mate on the wing. Obviously they have to be fast...