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While many of us love individual cats, research continues to show that free-roaming domestic cats are having serious impacts on wildlife. Sixty-three species extinctions – including the Hawaiian Rail (shown) – are linked to cats. In a new study, researchers from Oklahoma State Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center analyzed how cats are impacting mainland wildlife populations.
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“If we hope to protect native species globally, it is essential that we start implementing more effective management of cats,” said SMBC’s Pete Marra. Findings are published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
(Painting of Hawaiian Rail, an extinct species last seen in 1884, by Rothschild)
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Congratulations and thank you again to Loss and Marra for their comprehensive review of the studies. Thank you again to ABC for providing the superb educational material available through your website in the Cats Indoors tab abcbirds.org/program/cats-indoors/cats-and-birds/ Now we all need to find out ways to help small animal veterinarians become fully informed of the science and help them on board with the cats indoors programs. Public health physicians too seem to be unaware that keeping cats indoors and fed only fully cooked food is good for everyone, including the wildlife, the cats, the human children, and everyone inbetween too!
Beautiful bird. This is sad that went extinct. Let this serve a lesson to animal lovers that we must keep our cats indoor and control feral cat populations.
I took in a feral kitten and had him fixed. He has been part of the family for nearly eight years. I am thankful that he has no interest in going outside - you can leave the door open and he ignores it. People need to be responsible pet owners. The closest Floof gets to birds is from his perch on the window. He loves watching the feeders, but doesn’t show any interest in chasing them.
We were in Kona, Hawaii, this past summer, lots of feral cats on "A" beach that were being fed daily even with signs that said "do not feed cats!" I could not understand this why these cats were being fed and putting the birds st risk!
And, much like climate change deniers, despite the overwhelming evidence people continue to insist otherwise.
And people still say not my cat. They are living in a bubble.
The an overpopulation of housecats killed off a bird in 1884?
We love having our Facebook friends share their photos and passion for birds. Here are a couple images of Sage Thrasher, last week's #birdoftheweek. Thank you Andrew Johnson and Jerry Broadus for sharing with us. We invite others to do the same!
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More info about Sage Thrasher here: abcbirds.org/bird/sage-thrasher
Is this a Thrasher ???......taken in 2014, Florida !
God bless all the birds of the world 🐧🐦🐤🐥🐣 Every single one of them ! 🦉🦆🦅
I've got a family of Blue Jays- the little ones are so cute!
Mallards 🦆 visiting us on the lake
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Y love birds living free😃
Beautiful
Take action for a species that stands for the wide open spaces of the American West. Speak out and #savegrouse: abcbirds.org/action/petition-sage-grouse
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