@Sheril

Have only inside cats….

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@Mina

@Sheril This would be more readable if shown in millions. 2,400 vs 0.23 instead of uncountable zeros.

@Sheril Now add pesticides & loss of habitat

@Sheril So frustrating that a meta analysis from a decade ago that was mostly guess work and approximation is still being sited as an accurate rate of cat caused bird deaths. They even state in the appendix that while most bird deaths are attributed to feral cats "no empirically driven estimate of un-owned cat abundance exists for the contiguous U.S."

Here is a break down of why the data is essentially intentional misinformation from the NIH

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9794845/

@Sheril
No wonder birds are so skittish!

Honestly? I've seen half a dozen birds killed by hawks at my bird feeder so far this year, and I've only seen one cat take a run at them, and he missed!

Now how about a fact-check on the BS being spread by the liars at Republican HQ, about windmills and #birds.

https://factcheck.afp.com/bird-deaths-misleading-numbers-conceal-biggest-culprits

@Sheril yes bit wind turbines is killing big birds such as eagles and condors, a cat cannot harm an eagle. Eagles are really common up north where solar power doesn't work and they want to use huge wind turbines that are ugly.

@Sheril Humans have removed most predators from our landscapes allowing small birds to flourish in a way they would not naturally be able. Despite the cat predation, we don't see any small birds in danger of extinction.

Cats pose no danger for condors, and condors are unlikely to be flying into glass buildings. So we would want to know what kind of birds are flying into the wind turbines. If condors ... that's a problem. If seagulls ... not so much.