Can Birds Be Gay? Do Birds Show Homosexual Behavr?

WHY IT'S OK FOR BIRDS TO BE GAY

This list clus birds for which there is documented evince of homosexual or transgenr behavr of one or more of the followg kds: sex, urtship, affectn, pair bondg, or parentg, as noted rearcher and thor Bce Bagemihl's 1999 book Blogil Exuberance: Animal Homosexualy and Natural Diversy. Bagemihl wr that the prence of same-sex sexual behavr was not 'officially' observed on a large sle until the 1990s due to possible observer bias ed by social attus towards LGBT people makg the homosexual theme taboo. [2][3] Bagemihl vot three chapters; Two Hundred Years at Lookg at Homosexual Wildlife, Explag (Away) Animal Homosexualy and Not For Breedg Only his 1999 book Blogil Exuberance to the "documentatn of systematic prejudic" where he not "the prent ignorance of blogy li precisely s sgle-md attempt to fd reproductive (or other) "explanatns" for homosexualy, transgenr, and non-procreative and alternative heterosexuali.

Exhib stated "[M]any rearchers have scribed homosexualy as somethg altogether different om sex. Homosexual behavr is found amongst social birds and mammals, particularly the sea mammals and the primat.

Bagemihl's rearch shows that homosexual behavr, not necsarily sex, has been observed close to 1500 speci, rangg om primat to gut worms, and is well documented for 500 of them. [5][6] Homosexualy animals is seen as ntroversial by social nservativ bee asserts the naturalns of homosexualy humans, while others unter that has no implitns and is nonsensil to equate animal behavr to moraly. Th homosexual behavr has been given a number of terms over the years.

IS MY BIRD GAY? INFORMATN ABOUT HOMOSEXUAL BIRDS AND PARROTS

The rrect age of the term homosexual is that an animal exhibs homosexual behavr, however this article nforms to the age by morn rearch[9][10][11][12] applyg the term homosexualy to all sexual behavr (pulatn, genal stimulatn, matg gam and sexual display behavr) between animals of the same sex.

This list is part of a larger list of animals displayg homosexual behavr cludg mammals, sects, fish etc. See also: List of mammals displayg homosexual behavr.

[1]Male Guianan Cock-of-the-rock, distributed the mountao regns of Guyana, eastern Colombia, southern Venezuela, Surame, French Guiana and northern Amazonian Brazil, "light homosexualy" wh almost 40 percent engagg a form of homosexual activy and a small percentage never pulatg wh femal. An timated one-quarter of all black swans pairgs are homosexual and they steal nts, or form temporary threom wh femal to obta eggs, drivg away the female after she lays the eggs.