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[road's end farm <organic101@linkny.com>]

On Feb 14, 2007, at 4:26 PM, Jackie Jameson wrote:

> Go to www.audubon.org  and do a search for cats.  You'll find all sorts or research, information and campaigns addressing this serious issue for bird conservation.
>
> Jackie

I've seen a batch of such studies. Do you know if they have anything addressing the specific issue I raised (below)? Can you link it, if so? I'm on a slow phone line and it can take me a very long time to hunt through most web sites.

> On 2/14/07, road's end farm <organic101@linkny.com> wrote:
> > Many areas with a lot of free-roaming cats no longer have most of the
> > original predators who preyed on birds in that area. I don't know if
> > anyone has ever done studies correcting for this factor, to try to 
> > determine whether the bird mortality rate from cats is higher than a
> > natural background rate with no cats, but with other bird predators in
> > the area.
--Rivka
Finger Lakes NY; zone 5 mostly