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Cat Forum / Health and Behavior / June 2005It's about time! (cause of declining bird populations)
One of the "excuses" we hear all the time from people who want to exterminate feral cats is the claim that cats are responsible for devastation of bird populations. The Audubon Society has contributed to this claim. In today's paper there is an article about workers suspending brush clearing work near a nesting site of painted buntings until the nesting period is over. The interesting thing is the following quote of a portion of the article: "Some wildlife researchers estimate a 3 percent decrease in population (of painted buntings) each year. The Audubon Society cites the primary threats as the loss of habitat and the capture of hundreds every year to be caged birds." No mention of feral cats at all. Only human-causes. Well, maybe it's time for TNR for humans? (grin) Annie, who thinks maybe she should look around for that little caged painted bunting that the formerly feral Rosie must have stashed somewhere. > One of the "excuses" we hear all the time from people who want to > exterminate feral cats is the claim that cats are responsible for [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > Annie, who thinks maybe she should look around for that little caged > painted bunting that the formerly feral Rosie must have stashed somewhere. That's great! I wish they would come out and apologize to the feral cats. I know ferals probably take down *some* birds, but they are not the largest cause declining bird populations, by far. -Kelly > That's great! I wish they would come out and apologize to the feral cats. > I know ferals probably take down *some* birds, but they are not the > largest cause declining bird populations, by far. > > -Kelly It's nice to see in print some recognition of the consequences of human actions. Blaming the cats for existing won't solve anything. They exist because of irresponsible human behavior. When you acknowledge the real source of a problem, then you can go after an effective solution. Annie > One of the "excuses" we hear all the time from people who want to > exterminate feral cats is the claim that cats are responsible for [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > No mention of feral cats at all. Only human-causes. > Well, maybe it's time for TNR for humans? (grin) > Annie, who thinks maybe she should look around for that little caged painted > bunting that the formerly feral Rosie must have stashed somewhere. > One of the "excuses" we hear all the time from people who want to > exterminate feral cats is the claim that cats are responsible for [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > No mention of feral cats at all. Only human-causes. I think Temple's Wisconsin 'study' is finally beginning to be veiwed as a fraud since his methodolgy was sh.t. Only an idiot would keep referring to it as a scientific paper- especially after Temple was cornered in an interview and had to admit his figures were'nt data but just guesses based on extrapolations of extrapolations! 20% of the cats in his 'study' were too young to hunt birds and 30% were too old. Birds only constituted <20% of the diet of the remaining 50%! 'Between 2 and 200 million birds are killed by cats a year". I wish my bookie would give me a spread like that! LOL! > Well, maybe it's time for TNR for humans? (grin) I tell the bird fanatics if feline predation has such a devastating impact on bird populations as the Wisconsin study implies, most species of birds around today would have become extinct millennia ago! To really ruffle their neurotic feathers, I tell them cats actually strengthen the bird population by cleansing their gene pool of slow and stupid birds. After all- birds can fly; if they get caught on the ground they can't be too swift! LOL! > Annie, who thinks maybe she should look around for that little caged painted > bunting that the formerly feral Rosie must have stashed somewhere. LOL! Good for her! Phil > I think Temple's Wisconsin 'study' is finally beginning to be veiwed as a > fraud since his methodolgy was sh.t. Only an idiot would keep referring [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > on extrapolations of extrapolations! ... > Phil I hope so. Blaming the cats when humans are at fault does not help the cats and does not help save the birds. Recently I've read of a reduced population of frogs and other amphibians and of honey bees. There is something going terribly wrong in our environment, and until people wake up, it will continue to get worse. Annie >I tell the bird fanatics if feline predation has such a devastating impact >on bird populations as the Wisconsin study implies, most species of birds [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >all- birds can fly; if they get caught on the ground they can't be too >swift! LOL! Well I guess I will stand alone once again but the most damage cats do is not to birds but to bird nests and their eggs, for some reason many game birds make their nests on the ground and the eggs are easy pickings for cats, raccoons, skunks, rodents etc. I would think any study that produced a number or percentage would be suspect because of the different predators that raid the nests. Brad LIFE'S JOURNEY IS NOT TO ARRIVE AT THE GRAVE SAFELY IN A WELL-PRESERVED BODY, BUT RATHER TO SKID IN SIDEWAYS, TOTALLY WORN OUT, SHOUTING... " HOLY @#$%... WHAT A RIDE!" > One of the "excuses" we hear all the time from people who want to > exterminate feral cats is the claim that cats are responsible for [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > Annie, who thinks maybe she should look around for that little caged painted > bunting that the formerly feral Rosie must have stashed somewhere. Bird declining populations are always a worry but it doesn't help blaming cats when other causes do far more harm. Alison ...> Bird declining populations are always a worry but it doesn't help > blaming cats when other causes do far more harm. > Alison That is exactly my point. Blaming cats won't help solve the homeless cat problem, and it takes attention away from causes that could be dealt with if people would only acknowledge the real sources of the problem. Annie |
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