Osprey Chick Super Pooper
Pandion haliaetus
                    
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July 18, 2009 Photograph, Week Six, Osprey Chick Super Pooper (Pandion haliaetus), Occoquan Bay NWR, Woodbridge, Virginia, © 2020.
The chicks keep the nest clean by cocking their rears up in the air and squirting their poop clear of the nest.  That is what that white stream is on the far right of the photo.

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