There was a discussion about this here a few years ago. Some people said that
it was common in their area to put an extra layer of wire over the cage to
prevent it.
Peter Shute
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> John Tongue
> Sent: Monday, 3 June 2013 7:33 AM
> To: Matthew Roach
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> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Grey Butherbirds Eating Pet Budgie
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> As a child growing up, we quite regularly lost budgies to
> Butcherbirds (mostly Pieds where we lived then). Sometimes,
> there would be virtually no remains of the budgie left in the cage.
>
> John Tongue
> Ulverstone, Tas.
>
>
> On 02/06/2013, at 7:31 PM, Matthew Roach wrote:
>
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > An acquaintance of ours had two pet budgies in a normal
> wire cage in their garden, in south-eastern Melbourne, and
> saw the two birds happily in the cage one afternoon, before
> returning inside for the night. In the morning, they found
> one Budgie still alive in the cage, with the other budgies
> remains on the floor of the cage; it had been killed and
> mostly eaten. We assumed that it wasn’t the other Budgie who
> did this, and seeing as the cage probably could not have been
> accessed by a cat or fox, we thought that a butcherbird may
> have been the culprit. They are found in their garden, but it
> must have stuck its beak through the gaps in the cage in
> order to get it, yet this must have been a bit of an effort.
> Has this behaviour been observed before?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Matthew Roach.
> >
> >
> >
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