why do birds eat each other?

Question

why do birds eat each other

Answer 1

because they taste like chicken

Answer 2

Birds eat each other 4 many reasons.
Over-crowding & territory disputes.
Birds have a " Waste not want not attitude".
They really can't afford 2 B that fussy!
60% of common garden birds R in decline, due 2 over-farming/pesticides that they use kill bugs/flies the birds normally live on.
Urban sprawl, pollution & bad storage of fertilisers etc also add 2 their woes!
A bit of cannibalism, I guess, tends 2 keep some species going!

Answer 3

Do you mean why does a bird like a hawk eat a bird like a pigeon? Because it is their diet and nature. A bird eating another bird is not cannibalism. It is only cannibalism if it eats another bird of the same species. Similarly, if you eat another mammal, you are not cannibalizing. You could even eat a gorilla and it wouldn't be cannibalizing. It is only cannibalism if you eat another human. Birds share the same Class with other birds, but not the same species.

Answer 4

I got a dvd with 2 birds eating each other. Then a guy joins in!

Answer 5

i will answer your question with a question. why do people eat people...cannibals eat people for one of two reasons
A. they are hungry
B. they are warring with other tribes and they do it, to sort of eat there souls...therefor they have the upper hand next time they are in a battle

other points... alligators eat their baby's too
momma cats have to protect their kittens from daddy
momma lions have to do the same thing
at least birds don't eat their young, just other (smaller) species ,as far as i know anyway.

Answer 6

There is another term for this, its called lebianism, birds eat each other because they can, and lets face it, dont birds do it better anyway???

Answer 7

well if it's a mother bird and you touched one of her babies it's because the baby smells different and she doesn't want it competing for food with her babies that don't smell like you. Another reason is it may have something wrong with it.

Answer 8

its called the food chain....all part of nature. Everything eats something else. If animals didn't eat other animals we would have some huge overpopulation problems.

Answer 9

blimey thats wierd.....didnt know that.....well on kinda the same subject......i saw a butterfly being eaten by a spider today......it got caught in the web and the spider spun a cacoomb around it and then dragged it to the side and then ate its head......it was all done really fast.........

Answer 10

Birds can be meat eaters as well as seed eaters..

Answer 11

Because it tastes like chicken to them.