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name         Douglas
status       educator
age          40s

Question -   My wife asked me how birds mate... and, besides "on the
fly", I didn't have an answer! Do you?


The Discovery Channel is the place to see this.  Also, any ornithology book
will explain it all in detail.  male and female birds have pretty much the same
anatomy whewreby you can not tell the sexes by looking unless the sexes are
dimorphic (males look different than the females).  They join their cloaca and
sperm is pressed into the female. You may know that the cloaca excretes all 
wastes.

The bottom line:  The "cloaca kiss".

Steve Sample
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