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Finch doing weird behavior

My female finch doing weird behavior to another female she is starting attacking her frequently and open her tail and doin something with her beak to scare another female

Hi,

This is territorial behavior. If you have nests in the cage, you need to remove the nests and see if that helps. If you have males also, and are trying to breed them, you can only have one pair of birds in the cage. Otherwise you can’t have nests in the cage if you have more than one pair in the cage, or only females. They do not need a nest to sleep in – a nest is only for breeding season. If the female doesn’t stop this, then you need to separate them before she kills the other bird.

Thank you for asking Lafeber,

Brenda