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Do mother birds eat dead baby birds?

Updated: 8/11/2023
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Unpleasant as it sounds, this can happen. A mother bird looking after young is often at the limit of her resources and may need to do this to survive and look after the remaining chicks. Of course some types of bird naturally eat the young of other species.

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