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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. 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.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

It is only the prejudice of our species that justifies culling the deer population while protecting our own. Who wiped out the wolves and mountain lions? BRINNING Boston, Dec. EISENMAN Highland Park, Ill., Hunters like him.