Big birds don’t get erections the way that it has always been thought that they do. They use lymph fluid to get erect, not blood. Be glad that you are not Dr. Patricia Brennan of Yale University, who, with her team, “closely examined the penis of a male ostrich and three male emus.”
Ain’t science grand?
Corey is a New Yorker who lived most of his life in upstate New York but has lived in Queens since 2008. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy and Desmond Shearwater. His bird photographs have appeared on the Today Show, in Birding, Living Bird Magazine, Bird Watcher's Digest, and many other fine publications. He is also the author of the American Birding Association Field Guide to the Birds of New York.
Ah, just what I love to see in my reader feed in the morning… a big heading for “Bird Erections.” I thought it was going to be about your latest lifer…
Had to smile at the quote: what, do the ostrich and emus take turns using it?
And why specify that they were male anyway?
Am I the only one that read Corey’s first sentence and pictured a Sesame Street character in a way I never wanted to?
@Patrick: I had all kinds of ideas for a headline but I decided to keep it relatively clean.
@Rick: I had to double check to make sure I had the quote right!
@Kirby: Sesame Street was never the same after Big Bird got overly excited…