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

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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 Also, in relatively natural, or wild, lands in much of the US the feral cat population will be limited by a healthy wild predator population.

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Ingrid Taylar: Bridging the Divide Between Cat and Bird Lovers

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Statistics come to life in the suffering of one dove or one mockingbird, the one needlessly stricken and dying for the sake of a personal choice. I assume this personal tie is what brings many people to a wildlife hospital for the first time: empathy and sorrow for the single animal in their care. All photographs by Ingrid Taylar.

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