Sitting On Your Head

[Pajarita]

Actually, Liz, they don't pick it up and throw it out. They eat the babies fecal sacs (the encapsulated poop you mentioned) when they are very small but once they get a bit bigger and attain enough movement to allow them to start backing up to the edge of the nest, they stop doing it. And this is the reason why adult birds will 'back out' when on our shoulders and appear to be trying not to poop on us.