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Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer

10,000 Birds

He likes books too, which made him the ideal reviewer for Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer. Agonizing quandaries concerning invasive species are well-known to wildlife biologists. It’s not just the effect of cats on wildlife that should be alarming, “Cat Wars” says.

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How many birds are killed by windmills and other green energy projects?

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According to the US Fish and Wildlife Service , there are about 10 billion breeding birds in the US. The maximum population size may be closer to 20 billion in the fall, and 10 billion at the start of the Spring breeding season. How many birds to cats kill in the United States? So keep that in mind. Or may be a tenth of that.

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

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This almost certainly can be argued to be true just on the basis of logic, because feral Cats are proficient hunters and are entirely out of ecological place. There is no native cat smaller than a Bobcat here, and Bobcats are considerably larger than Kitties. We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.4–3.7