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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. Other felids are all much larger, the similar sized carnivores are things like minks and ferrets, and they have very different habits.

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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. We do know this: In areas where feral cat populations exist, they are often well established.