10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 25, 2016
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. The traditional, supposedly humane answer to the glut of feral cats has been institution of “TNR” programs – trap, neuter, return.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 26, 2011
Dauphine works at the National Zoo studying wild birds, where her research has focused on one of birds’ enemies: cats. An online lecture by Dauphine is entitled “apocalypse meow – free ranging cats and the destruction of American wildlife.” Here’s hoping that Dauphine has her name cleared.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2014
I find it astonishing that people argue of whether feral cats are bad for birds in North America. 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.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 16, 2014
How many birds to cats kill in the United States? A recent meta study ( The impact of free-ranging domestic cats on wildlife of the United States ) that applied strict inclusion criteria and some fancy statistics estimates that 2.4 billion birds, plus or minus more than a billion, are killed by cats every year in the US.
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