It has been suggested that mid to top level predators (such as bobcats) were on the decline in the Everglades, leading to an overpopulation of raccoons and opossums, which eat bird eggs, nestlings, and reptile eggs. Burmese find racoons and opossums to be just the right size for a snack, so may potentially reduce the numbers of these predatory animals, more than making up for the occasional bird they take.
Alligators can eat even quite large Burmese pythons, and would eat pythons of all sizes. All snake-eating animals would enjoy eating baby burms, including the endangered indigo snakes.
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