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

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If cats displace ferrets, then that probably means that birds are getting hit harder than rodents, and among birds, adult birds are getting hit harder than eggs or hatchlings. adding wolves, who displace coyotes) can dramatically change the ecology and directly affect species diversity and abundance.

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

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The plethora of approaches to the feral Cat problem is not an outcome of a diversity of great ideas; it is the ugly chimera of inappropriate compromise among biased and often poorly informed stakeholders. And for rodents and reptiles as well. among the Mustilids, and Coyotes and to a lesser extent Foxes. Plus, Coyotes eat Cats.