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  • When they are little they get 'chick-ups'
  • Not officially, but some birds regurgitate food to feed their young. The muscle actions for regurgitation are similar to burping.
  • No they don't. We burp because something makes gas in our digestive track. Birds eat food and then it gets lodged in the crop where it gets ground up and sort of predigested. Then it travels to the stomach to get really digested. There isn't a way for the stomach contents (including gas and air) to make it back out the mouth. Birds do however regurgitate their food, usually to their young but also to each other as a sign of courtship and aaaaaaah....love. Young birds also make a little ack ack sound that sometimes sounds like a burp but it's only a food call for mom to drop something in.
  • Yeah , after some woodpecker cider.
  • Only when they have too much to drink.
  • No, here's what I wrote in another similar question. No they don't. We burp because something makes gas in our digestive track. Birds eat food and then it gets lodged in the crop where it gets ground up and sort of predigested. Then it travels to the stomach to get really digested. There isn't a way for the stomach contents (including gas and air) to make it back out the mouth. Birds do however regurgitate their food, usually to their young but also to each other as a sign of courtship and aaaaaaah....love. Young birds also make a little ack ack sound that sometimes sounds like a burp but it's only a food call for mom to drop something in.
  • Yes, and baby birds can be burped. When hand feeding baby cockatiels they tend to suck in a lot of air. So I burp the babies by gently rubbing upwards on their crop.
  • I'm not sure. But I've heard my Macaw Parrot snore before.
  • yes, they burp and fart. it's hilarious to hear, just never put a lighter near there back orifice. oh how i miss my budgie, he never saw it coming

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