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Cats kill billions of wild birds each year. This feral cat near Brisbane has caught a Pale-headed rosella.. Cat predation on wildlife is the result of the natural instincts and behavior of both feral and owned house cats to hunt small prey, including wildlife.
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.
Cats have a natural hunting instinct that can disrupt ecosystems by killing birds, which can lead to imbalances in predator-prey dynamics, Indiana Audubon’s Whitney Yoerger said. Program helps ...
The SAWC estimated that domestic cats kill 27 million birds in the UK each year. It advised the government to consider a range of measures, including keeping domestic cats indoors or on leashes ...
Many pet cat owners in Australia let their cats outside at night. [8] Each pet cat in Australia kills an estimated 110 native animals each year; totalling up to about 80 million native birds, 67 million native mammals and 83 million native reptiles being killed by them annually. [8] Almost 30% of Australian households keep at least one ...
Feral cats kill on average one million reptiles each day. [123] Feral cats in Australia kill over 1.5 billion native mammals, birds, reptiles and frogs, and 1.1 billion invertebrates each year. Predation by cats is a recognised threat to over 200 nationally threatened species, and 37 listed migratory species.
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]
According to the American Bird Conservancy, "Cats kill 1.3 to 4 billion birds each year in the U.S. alone." Additionally, "outdoor domestic cats are a recognized threat to global biodiversity.