Although most male birds have no external sex organs, the male does have two testes which become hundreds of times larger during the breeding season to produce sperm. The female's ovaries also become larger, although only the left ovary actually functions.
In the males of species without a phallus, sperm is stored in the seminal glomera within the cloacal protuberance prior to copulation. During copulation, the female moves her tail to the side and the male either mounts the female from behind or in front (in the stitchbird), or moves very close to her. The cloacae then touch, so that the sperm can enter the female's reproductive tract. This can happen very fast, sometimes in less than one second.
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2006-07-14 20:00:34
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answered by Starreply 6
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2016-05-22 14:46:05
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answered by Frank 3
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LMAO at the ignorant chick aragornsbaby who thinks bird reproduce with thier mouths...LOL Well I guess she really must be as blond as her picture.
The Answer to the question is yes and no
Excerpt from wikipedia...
Among birds, only paleognathes (tinamous and ratites) and Anatidae (ducks, geese and swans) possess a penis. It is different in structure from mammal penes, being an erectile expansion of the cloacal wall and being erected by lymph, not blood. It is usually partially feathered and in some species features spines and brush-like filaments, and in flaccid state curled up inside the cloaca. The Argentine Blue-bill has the largest penis in relation to body size of all vertebrates; while usually about half the body size (20 cm), a specimen with a remarkable 42.5 cm-long penis is documented.
2006-07-14 22:58:16
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answered by Kelly + Eternal Universal Energy 7
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Actually we know that birds could not have evolved from a dinosaur. The fingers do not match. Theropod dinosaurs have fingers 1-2-3 and birds have fingers 2-3-4; Dinosaurs were ground dwellers, and flight evolving from the ground up is biophysically implausible. No dinosaur has ever been found with anything remotely resembling feathers but Longisquama, a small Triassic arboreal archosaur, has feathers. A mountain of evidence exists to falsify the dinosaurian origin of birds, but the theory continued to be propped up by paleontologists because their careers are threatened by its falsification. Since most paleontologists are cladists, and since cladistic analysis keeps giving us the wrong answer that birds are descended from a dinosaur, admitting that birds are not descended from a dinosaur would mean that cladistics is, as one biologist pionts out, a great delusion. That would in turn do irreparable damage to many careers, even though it is inevitable historically. The careers of many cladists will be marginalized by history, whether they like it or not. Since soft body parts like penis are not preserved in fossils, we will never know whether dinosaurs had penises or not. We have no way of even knowing the sex of any dinosaur. The most complete T. rex skeleon ever found was named Sue because its discoverer is named Sue, not because we know that T. rex is female. If we examine the distribution and morphology of the penis among extant reptiles, we see that they differ among the many groups. The tuatara does not have a penis. Lizards and snakes have 2 hemipenises. Crocodilians and turtles have one. It has been suggested therefore that each of these groups probably evolved their penis independently of each other from an ancestor that did not have one. Therefore we have no idea whether dinosaurs were more like the tuatara or the crocodile, a close relative of dinosaurs. Since we do not know whether Longisquama has a penis or not, we also do not know whether Archaeopteryx had a penis or not. Modern birds are ornithurine birds. The enantiornithine birds, to which Archaeopteryx belong, were wiped out by the giant meteor. Most modern bird orders therefore evolved after the K-T extinction, ostensiblly from shorebird-like ancestors. If we examine the distribution of the penis in living birds, we find that very few of them have one. As the Wikipedia points out, only 3% of bird species have them. The distribution of this organ is also problematic, as it is found "particularly in ratites, screamers, waterfowl, and cracids" but not in most other bird species. Such sporadic distribution suggest 2 things: multiple independent loss or multiple independent acquisition. Neither of these 2 hypotheses is parsimonious. Some zoologists have come down on the side of multiple independent loss. Personally, I find multiple independent acquisition more likely for the following reasons: 1. Loss of an adaptive structure is unlikely. If the penis is adaptive, and I am sure it is (because otherwise it would not have evolved in so many groups of reptiles, in mammals and in birds), then it is unlikely that it should be lost once it evolved. 2. The Charadriiformes, or shorebirds, do not have a penis. This group is close to the base of the modern bird radiation, and therefore closest to the group of birds that survived the K-T debacle. If this group does not have a penis, then it is also likely that other bird orders, which evolved from shorebirds after the Cretaceous, inherited this condition from the shorebirds. 3. Functional constraint. For birds to lose the penis, after having had one for countless generations, birds would have to figure out how to transfer sperm differently without risking extinction. The possibility of extinction because sperm cannot be passed is a high price to pay to lose an organ like the penis. The risk is too high for any one bird species to try it, and it would be implausible that many different species of birds would undergo the same risky experiment and succeed. In sum, I think it is very unlikely that the common ancestor of modern bird orders had a penis. As for dinosaurs, we may never know whether they did or not. Since birds are not the closest relatives of dinosaurs, we cannot use birds to infer its presensce or absence in dinosaurs. We may never know whether dinosaurs had penis or none at all.
2016-03-27 00:46:45
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answered by Anonymous
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2016-11-01 00:03:38
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answered by Anonymous
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Most birds DO NOT have a penis. They have cloacas in which sperm passes through. Waterfowl, ducks and geese, and such do have a penis.
2006-07-14 20:40:21
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answered by Anonymous
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2016-06-27 16:45:39
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answered by ? 3
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Most birds completely lack external sexual organs -- including the males. In typical bird-sex, males introduce sperm into female bodies by pressing their sexual openings against the female's sexual opening, kiss-like. Typically this is accomplished with the male mounted atop the female, tottering and flapping his wings to keep from slipping off. Swifts and swallows mate in midair.
2006-07-14 19:50:06
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answered by Anonymous
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Ask one. Or- catch one and take a look for yourself Or-Follow one into the mens bird restroom, if he's standing at the urinal check it out. Why do you want to know? pee peep.
2006-07-14 19:54:02
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answered by Anonymous
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Yes Thats why the male birds called a Cock
2006-07-14 19:49:53
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answered by Nick 2
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