Remove Animal Remove Cat Population Remove Protection Remove United States
article thumbnail

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

10,000 Birds

In other words, looking at fledglings (or older) and not chicks, the US bird population normally doubles itself every year, but then get undoubled by … well, various factors probably mostly hypothermia, starvation, disease, and predation. How many birds to cats kill in the United States?

Killing 274
article thumbnail

Feral Cats in American Cities

10,000 Birds

. … The ordinance would allow Minneapolis residents to establish cat “colonies” where abandoned and wild cats can be fed but also vaccinated, neutered and identified in an effort to humanely cut their population and control disease. Cats are domesticated animals that are not indigenous wildlife in North America.

article thumbnail

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

10,000 Birds

That was one of his cats. He also had tigers, cougars, and some other animals. One day he said, of domestic cats, “Yeah, if those particular cats were scaled up to lion size but with the same attitude, we’d all be cat food.” Smaller and larger animals (if there are any) are taken by other creatures.