Sentences with phrase «birds by feral cats»

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In order to protect the exotic birds that live on the Ogasawara Islands, a clutch of tropical islands 620 miles south of Tokyo, from being predated by an overwhelming number of feral cats, the Japanese government has ordered the capture and rehabilitation of the cats.

An earlier policy to trap, neuter / spay and release feral cats to avoid euthanization was struck down in court by a group that sued because they felt the policy would endanger the city's bird population.

In his presentation Feral and Free - ranging Cats and Urban Birds, Steve Holzman, South Atlantic Geographic Area Data Manager for USFWS, argued that if the goal of PIF is to «keep common birds common,» predation by cats simply can't be ignoCats and Urban Birds, Steve Holzman, South Atlantic Geographic Area Data Manager for USFWS, argued that if the goal of PIF is to «keep common birds common,» predation by cats simply can't be ignBirds, Steve Holzman, South Atlantic Geographic Area Data Manager for USFWS, argued that if the goal of PIF is to «keep common birds common,» predation by cats simply can't be ignbirds common,» predation by cats simply can't be ignocats simply can't be ignored.

Multiply that by the 60 — 120 million feral cats the American Bird Conservancy claims are in the U.S. [1], and we're talking real money: $ 11.0 — 22.1 billion annually.

Contrary to the claim made by ABC / TWS, the UNL paper didn't find «that feral cats were responsible for the extinction of 33 species of birds worldwide.»

«Each year millions of birds and small animals are killed — not by guns or boats or vehicles but by CATS, free - roaming or feral cats,» states a flier distributed on Key Largo by the Fish and Wildlife ServCATS, free - roaming or feral cats,» states a flier distributed on Key Largo by the Fish and Wildlife Servcats,» states a flier distributed on Key Largo by the Fish and Wildlife Service.

Also, a number of studies have been done that show that birds and small mammals are being decimated by free roaming and feral cats.

Any remaining controversy over feral cats is further fueled by fringe conservation biologists who claim that the easiest and best way to save birds is to round up and kill outdoor cats.

Higgins relies on Dauphiné and Cooper for estimates of both the number of «stray and out - and - out feral cats» («there may be as many as 100 million such cats in the country») and birds killed by free - roaming cats («at least one billion birds are killed by cats annually, «and the actual number is probably much higher.

Following a successful campaign headed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, the main island was in 2006 declared free of feral cats, and sea birds are now once again nesting on Ascension IsBirds, the main island was in 2006 declared free of feral cats, and sea birds are now once again nesting on Ascension Isbirds are now once again nesting on Ascension Island.

The authors conclude that bird conservation professionals must develop innovative and collaborative ways to address threats posed by feral cats instead of advocating for euthanasia in all situations (Peterson et al., 2012).

«The Audubon magazine recently cited a new peer - reviewed paper by University of Nebraska — Lincoln — researchers concluding that feral cats — domestic that live outdoors and are ownerless — in other words, feral — account for $ 17 billion — that's billion — in economic loss from predation on birds in the U.S. every year.»

As its source, TWS cites a 2004 paper (presented as part of the American Veterinary Medical Association's 2003 Animal Welfare Forum, «Management of Abandoned and Feral Cats») by Linda Winter, founding director of the American Bird Conservancy's Cats Indoors!

I can supply any number of citations to correct your misunderstandings — as to why Marzluff's work does not support TNR at all, why coyotes are better for birds than cats, and much more — but nearly every TNR supporter with whom I've conversed has been too blinded by their emotional attachment to feral cats to accept scientific reality....

So while a coyote might kill an occasional bird, for every bird the coyote kills, it saves the lives of dozens more by killing or chasing away feral cats etc..

Impacts of Free - ranging Domestic Cats (Felis catus) on birds in the United States: A review of recent research with conservation and management recommendations (2009) HAHF cites the 2009 paper co-authored by former Smithsonian researcher Nico Dauphiné (who resigned after being found guilty of attempted animal cruelty last year, after rat poison was found in cat food outside her apartment building) as evidence of «the incredible impact of free ranging cats on the bird populations of the U.S.» Among the many flaws in «Impacts of Free - ranging Domestic Cats» was the authors» estimate of «117 to 157 million exotic predators,» which was based on David Jessup's inflated (and, not surprisingly, unattributed) «estimate» of «60 to 100 million feral and abandoned cats.&raCats (Felis catus) on birds in the United States: A review of recent research with conservation and management recommendations (2009) HAHF cites the 2009 paper co-authored by former Smithsonian researcher Nico Dauphiné (who resigned after being found guilty of attempted animal cruelty last year, after rat poison was found in cat food outside her apartment building) as evidence of «the incredible impact of free ranging cats on the bird populations of the U.S.» Among the many flaws in «Impacts of Free - ranging Domestic Cats» was the authors» estimate of «117 to 157 million exotic predators,» which was based on David Jessup's inflated (and, not surprisingly, unattributed) «estimate» of «60 to 100 million feral and abandoned cats.&racats on the bird populations of the U.S.» Among the many flaws in «Impacts of Free - ranging Domestic Cats» was the authors» estimate of «117 to 157 million exotic predators,» which was based on David Jessup's inflated (and, not surprisingly, unattributed) «estimate» of «60 to 100 million feral and abandoned cats.&raCats» was the authors» estimate of «117 to 157 million exotic predators,» which was based on David Jessup's inflated (and, not surprisingly, unattributed) «estimate» of «60 to 100 million feral and abandoned cats.&racats.»

Check Your Premises In their recent paper (available for download via the American Bird Conservancy (ABC) website), Dauphiné and Cooper arrive at their absurd figure of «117 — 157 million free - ranging cats in the United States,» [7] in part, by way of Jessup's «estimated 60 to 100 million feral and abandoned cats in the United States.»

Instead of hiding and sleeping by day, hunting rodents by night, as true feral cats do, remaining invisible to most of the public, fed cats treated as outdoor pets tend to loiter in daytime awaiting their feeders, sometimes conspicuously hunting birds for sport.

Feral cats also bring pests like fleas and ticks, and they can start to affect the environment by preying on natural bird and rodent populations.

Research by Environment and Climate Change Canada found that the top human - related impacts on birds are due to predation by free - roaming cats (feral and owned outdoor cats).

Predation by owned and feral cats causes roughly 100 to 350 million bird deaths annually.

While it's true that feral cats do pose a threat to endangered birds, the bigger threat comes from a disasterous loss of habitat caused by indiscriminate development.

Cal Baca, chief of the state's Wildlife Management Division, said in a recent letter to the mayor that feral cats «are nonnative predators introduced by humans» and harm the bird population.

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[60] The birds formerly bred on Ascension Island itself, but the colonies were exterminated by feral cats introduced in 1815.

«Generally, large scale burning is increasingly seen as an ecological disaster because it opens up the ground cover and greatly exposes small and medium vertebrates to predation by dingoes, foxes and feral cats,» Dr. Terry Dawson, who studies environmental physiology and arid zone mammals and birds, told TreeHugger.

Further, a study by University of Nebraska found that feral cats are responsible for the extinction of 33 species of birds worldwide.