AnnikaPetersen
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- May 13, 2022
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Hi everyone.
I am new in this forum and I am Danish so I apologize if I have posted this in a wrong place and for any spelling mistakes etc.
My farther has a big bird cage outside with many canaries and three cockatiels. My dad has had birds for 20 years and every year the canary birds get offspring which usually is a very nice and sweet happening. My dad also sell birds regularly so there are not too many birds in the aviary.
Last summer something very unpleasant began; Every time a new canary baby-bird came out of its nest it somehow got one of its legs bitten off by an unknown bird-culprit (we think??) resulting in some of them very sadly dying. At first, we thought it could be the cockatiel who at the time was alone because his mate died - and so we thought he could be in distress and be the one biting the legs of. We tried to get two new female cockatiels and hoped the problem would stop.
This summer however, it is happening again. We have tried to separate the cockatiels completely but it still happens which means that it must be one of the other canaries doing it. The problem is that they all are the same color and look the same, so how will we ever know which bird is the culprit even if we put up a camera?
Now since the issue began in the summer of 2021 and never ever happened before this, I have suggested that we try to separate the canaries that were born in the summer of 2020 (my dad gives ring-bands in different colors to new birds every year to tell how old they are etc.) since my theory is that it might be one of these birds. It cannot be birds born in 2021 since the issue began in the spring of 2021 and since it has never happened before, it is most likely that is is a new bird haven been born in 2020 (and not an older bird, because why would it suddenly begin doing this??)
My dad will now try to gently nudge the birds born in 2020 into the indoors aviary that connect with the outdoor one and separate the birds completely, just to see if this will help. But since we are not bird experts and cannot find any info about this online, we really do not know how to find the bird who does this.
Some additional information: The amount of birds has not changed significantly over time so it is not because they have too little space - the aviary is very big and I think there are in total 15 or 20 birds.
Has anyone ever heard of this behavior before or know what we can do to figure out which bird does this? It is all the baby-birds, no matter which nest they come from, that this happens to, so I do not think it is any of the other parents who does it to for example enhance the chances of their own offspring.
We are very saddened by this :-(
Thank you in advance for any answers and for your help.
Kind regards,
Annika
I am new in this forum and I am Danish so I apologize if I have posted this in a wrong place and for any spelling mistakes etc.
My farther has a big bird cage outside with many canaries and three cockatiels. My dad has had birds for 20 years and every year the canary birds get offspring which usually is a very nice and sweet happening. My dad also sell birds regularly so there are not too many birds in the aviary.
Last summer something very unpleasant began; Every time a new canary baby-bird came out of its nest it somehow got one of its legs bitten off by an unknown bird-culprit (we think??) resulting in some of them very sadly dying. At first, we thought it could be the cockatiel who at the time was alone because his mate died - and so we thought he could be in distress and be the one biting the legs of. We tried to get two new female cockatiels and hoped the problem would stop.
This summer however, it is happening again. We have tried to separate the cockatiels completely but it still happens which means that it must be one of the other canaries doing it. The problem is that they all are the same color and look the same, so how will we ever know which bird is the culprit even if we put up a camera?
Now since the issue began in the summer of 2021 and never ever happened before this, I have suggested that we try to separate the canaries that were born in the summer of 2020 (my dad gives ring-bands in different colors to new birds every year to tell how old they are etc.) since my theory is that it might be one of these birds. It cannot be birds born in 2021 since the issue began in the spring of 2021 and since it has never happened before, it is most likely that is is a new bird haven been born in 2020 (and not an older bird, because why would it suddenly begin doing this??)
My dad will now try to gently nudge the birds born in 2020 into the indoors aviary that connect with the outdoor one and separate the birds completely, just to see if this will help. But since we are not bird experts and cannot find any info about this online, we really do not know how to find the bird who does this.
Some additional information: The amount of birds has not changed significantly over time so it is not because they have too little space - the aviary is very big and I think there are in total 15 or 20 birds.
Has anyone ever heard of this behavior before or know what we can do to figure out which bird does this? It is all the baby-birds, no matter which nest they come from, that this happens to, so I do not think it is any of the other parents who does it to for example enhance the chances of their own offspring.
We are very saddened by this :-(
Thank you in advance for any answers and for your help.
Kind regards,
Annika
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