Report from Canada Echoes U.S. Finding: Outdoor Cats Leading Human-Caused Source of Bird Mortality
A new study from the government of Canada that looked at more than 25 human-caused sources of bird mortality has found that domestic cats, both feral and owned, are the leading lethal threat to birds in the country.
The study found that the median estimate of cat-caused mortality—almost 200 million bird deaths per year—was about six times greater than the next leading mortality estimate of about 32 million attributed to car collisions. The third-leading cause was collisions with buildings or homes, with a rate of about 22 million bird deaths per year.
“We synthesized estimates of the magnitude of human-related mortality in Canada from major industrial sectors and non-industrial or public activities that we believe kill substantial numbers of birds,” the report says. Some of the bird-mortality sources in addition to the top three included: transmission line collisions, wind energy, mining, forestry, and pesticides used in agriculture.
“A wealth of scientific studies in the United States have sounded the alarm about bird and other wildlife mortality from cats. Those studies have also voiced strong concerns about potential human health impacts. This Canadian national study continues a warning trend about this growing invasive species disaster that is at our doorstep in the form of outdoor cats,” said Grant Sizemore, Cats Indoors Program Manager for American Bird Conservancy, a leading bird conservation group in the United States.
http://www.abcbirds.org/newsandreports/releases/131001.html
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Or that is just too rich. 
So a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving native birds over introduced feral cats which are not native is a propaganda organization?
They won't be killing birds.....or effectively scratching their asses either.
Poachers?
Pesticides?
Nah...BLAME CATS! 
Here we go again.
