Why do you think My baby rainbow lorikeet died in the nest?

Question

I have a bonded breeding pair of rainbow lorrikeets, and just yesturday discovered that they had a baby that looked a day or 2 old and also there is an egg in there as well, my partner took the box out of the aviary so we could see the baby and determine age, as its the only way for us to know if our birds have babies and thats to remove the box, after we did this we had the box inside for about 10 mins and put the box back into the aviary, this afternoon i went to check if the new egg had hatched and Baby was dead, egg hasnt hatched, does anyone know why baby would have died? also mum and dad birds were being noisy inside the box after we put the box back in but it doesent look as though the baby was harmed in anyway by the look of its body.

im worried that if and when this new egg hatches if the baby will be ok im new at this and need advise.

Answer 1

Birds are really funny, not one is alike in every way. It sounds to me that the parents were probably really disturbed that the nest was removed and didnt sit back on the eggs when you returned the nest box. I taught all my breeding pairs that when I tap on the box that I am coming in. They have gotten use to inspections. I do this regularly to insure the babies are doing fine and that if anyone is not being fed, I pull them for handfeeding. Also if a chick is having difficulty pipping out of the egg which has happend a few times due to not enough humidity.