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

10,000 Birds

I had noted that if you took a quick look around you’d think there were a lot of birds and very few mammals. Of course, a lot of the mammals would be hiding. Statue “Phillis Wheatley” by Meredith Bergmann, in Boston. Hardly any Sandhill Cranes are killed by domestic (including ferrel domestic) cats.

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Rare Birds: The Extraordinary Tale of the Bermuda Petrel and the Man Who Brought It Back from Extinction–A Review

10,000 Birds

In addition to longtails and rats, Wingate battles developers (of course), a rare Snowy Owl that kills 5% of the cahow population (Wingate shoots the owl, to the dismay of many), and the U.S. Ultimately, the story always comes back to the cahows, whose population grows slowly.

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