10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

The number of birds, and other animals, killed by feral Cats is probably large , but it either varies a great deal from place to place, or the estimates are so inaccurate that they, the estimates themselves, vary a great deal from place to place. We do know this: In areas where feral cat populations exist, they are often well established.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2016

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. Arriving in North America around the time of Columbus, they have become “one of the most successful invasive species on earth.”.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

While cats do not fill a specific niche normally held by a native carnivore, there are reasons to believe that some of those birds would have been eaten by a wild predator had the cats not been in play. In other words, cats may be a very severe problem in some places, but in other places not a factor at all.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

Pretty standard. He also quoted a biologist pointing out how extreme the TNR people are and gave a few examples.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

… Matthew Anderson [of Audubon] said proponents of colonies are putting the interests of one invasive species — cats — over the hundreds of other native ones that are their prey. Cats are domesticated animals that are not indigenous wildlife in North America. Those who violate the ordinance can be fined $200.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2012

So, 5% of all birds might mean 10% of all song birds and really, it might be 20% or more of all the birds that die in a given year for specific species, with the species involved being those that are common to a specific habitat in which the cats are found. Is this a problem? 3) Some of these birds were going to die anyway.

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