Strange poo found in garden

M.potter · January 2021

Hello,

This morning when I went out into the front garden I’ve seen that something has poo’d. I’ve never seen anything like it and thought it was a pile of stones at first. I

can’t identify it...it’s a very white ‘pat’ about 20cm in spread and the brown poo bits are a few centremetes in length and curly. It’s under a tree on our front lawn but I don’t think this is a bird, if it is it’s massive.

Any ideas on what it is???

Many thanks.
Mark

Dovefromabove · January 2021

99.999% of the time a white coating on a poo indicates it’s from a bird as the white layer is urea which birds excrete via the same ‘vent’ as the poo, unlike mammals.

My guess is you’ve had a small flock of one type of bird roosting in your tree.

What sort of tree is it?

Maybe it had berries that they were after ... possibly migrant thrushes, redwings or fieldfares that come here from Scandinavia after our wild berry crop on trees and hedgerows.

M.potter · January 2021

Thanks very much for the response and helpful insight. I believe it’s a cherry tree (we’ve only been here a few weeks) but seems very bare at this time of year?
I’ll try and keep my eyes peeled to see if they come back, I’m just amazed at the shear volume of poo on the floor in one particular area.

Regards,
Mark

rolanda.woo · March 2023

Hi, M.potter said:

Hello,

This morning when I went out into the front garden I’ve seen that something has poo’d. I’ve never seen anything like it and thought it was a pile of stones at first. I can’t identify it...it’s a very white ‘pat’ about 20cm in spread and the brown poo bits are a few centremetes in length and curly. It’s under a tree on our front lawn but I don’t think this is a bird, if it is it’s massive.

Any ideas on what it is???

Many thanks.
Mark

Hi, Mark,

I just found exactly the same kind of pile in my garden. Did you find out what animal/bird did it in the end please?

Thanks.
Rolanda

bédé · March 2023

Could it be a deer? The white possibly poo-eating fungus; so the poo has been there a short while.

Dovefromabove · March 2023

Definitely a bird ... as i said earlier, it's all that white stuff which is the bird equivalent of urine.

Do you have woodpigeons around?

bédé · March 2023

From google, so not 100% reliable (but who is?)

Birds, unlike mammals, do not have separate exits for urine and feces. Both waste products are eliminated simultaneously through the cloaca. While mammals excrete nitrogenous wastes mostly in the form of urea, birds convert it to uric acid or guanine, which reduces water loss in comparison.

and: uric acid, which emerges as a white paste. And uric acid doesn't dissolve in water easily.

CatDouch · March 2023

I thought wood pigeons as well @Dovefromabove, I’ve got loads of wood pigeons in my garden and they produce huge amounts of poo 🤨 if a couple of them were roosting in your cherry tree overnight I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the result!

Fairygirl · March 2023

Looks like pigeon poop to me.

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