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A 2013 systematic review in Nature Communications of data from 17 studies found that feral and domestic cats are estimated to kill billions of birds in the United States every year. [6] In a global 2023 assessment, cats were found to prey on 2,084 different species, of which 347 (or 16.5%) were of conservation concern.
Whatever your views on outdoor cats, it’s unavoidable that indoor cats are safer to birds – a study from 2013 found that domestic cats kill billions of birds and mammals each year.
[140]: 153 Domestic cats are a major predator of wildlife in the United States, killing an estimated 1.3 to 4.0 billion birds and 6.3 to 22.3 billion mammals annually. [ 141 ] Certain species appear more susceptible than others; in one English village, for example, 30% of house sparrow mortality was linked to the domestic cat. [ 142 ]
As of 2016, some 3.8 million domestic cats and up to 6.3 million feral cats continue to live in Australia. [2] [3] [needs update] The Invasive Species Council has estimated that each year domestic and feral cats in Australia kill 1,067 million mammals, 399 million birds, 609 million reptiles, 93 million frogs, and 1.8 billion invertebrates. [4]
A handful of domestic cats in Colorado died this year from bird flu even though some had no direct exposure to outbreaks on dairy farms. A handful of domestic cats in Colorado died this year from ...
Feral cats share a cubical at the OC Animal Care shelter. Credit - Mindy Schauer/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty Images. J ane and her husband loved the house they bought in ...
The impact of feral cats on species other than birds is not as well documented [13] although in 2010 the Department of Conservation discovered that a feral cat was responsible for killing over 100 endangered New Zealand short-tailed bats over a seven-day period in a forested area on the southern slope of Mount Ruapehu. [15]
Since 2022, the USDA has tracked over 300 cases of the EA H5N1 strain in mammals across the US. From March 2024 to the present day, several dozen cases have been confirmed in domestic cats, the ...