Unlikely chick thief

[MariusStegmann]

A guy in a finch WhatsApp group, posted this picture.

[Babs _Owner]

MariusStegmann

From the looks of his belly, thats not the first chick its eaten. Would be hard to keep those lizards out of an aviary. He looks like he could get through a very tiny crack. How frustrating for the owner of the aviary

[cindy]

one of the reasons I do not keep my birds outside here in Florida...

this has happened to a friend of mine that had her gouldians on the lanai

[Stuart whiting]

one of the reasons I do not keep my birds outside here in Florida...

this has happened to a friend of mine that had her gouldians on the lanai

I've got a freind who lives in Le do de jesslo which is in Italy and they are plagued with these little gecko type lizards and he apparently has had a bit of trouble with em aswel,

Who would of onestly thought that these little insect eating lizards would tern carnivores

[cindy]

The take eggs too!!

We have larger almost transparent yellowish geckos that can do the same....

[Stinch]

There was a baby house gecko that was living in my old society finch nest once (Before I changed the nest box I bought them with) when I let them breed, letting them breed was a mistake but it was an adorable mistake. Breeding never happened again after I took the nest box out several weeks after they fledged. It all depends on the size of the lizard and what kind of lizard it is.

[MariusStegmann]

This sort of explains to me how chicks can disappear without a trace which has happened to me a couple of times.

[Sally]

I once found a clutch of Blue-capped Cordon Bleu babies tossed on the floor of the cage, all dead. Next I found the male hanging from the back of the nest, dead. When I took out the nest, I found a bunch of tiny baby mice in there. The mice had apparently tossed the BCCB babies out so they could take over the nest. I believe the male BCCB died trying to protect his nest, he got tangled up in the nest. That is when I moved my birds into my spare bedroom.