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

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There is not a wild cat, such as the Wildcat, in North America, at that lower end of the size range for cats. Dogs are similarly dispersed across size ranges, with Foxes, Coyotes, and Wolves taking prey across different parts of the size range. On an island, the feral Cat eats all of those birds.

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Are there so many birds that cats don’t matter?

10,000 Birds

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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