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

10,000 Birds

Statue “Phillis Wheatley” by Meredith Bergmann, in Boston. In short, the answer is that in the United States there are 20 billion birds at the end of the breeding and fledging season, which gets winnowed down to 10 billion by the following early spring. In fact, there are certainly a few cats killed by hawks every year.

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