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Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer

10,000 Birds

Marra and Chris Santella, authors of Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer (Princeton University Press, 212 pp., They argue for the elimination of free-range cats entirely. Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer.

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How many birds are killed by windmills and other green energy projects?

10,000 Birds

In other words, looking at fledglings (or older) and not chicks, the US bird population normally doubles itself every year, but then get undoubled by … well, various factors probably mostly hypothermia, starvation, disease, and predation. How many birds to cats kill in the United States? What are other human causes of bird death?

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