[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by Allegiance

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...e79_story.html


Much press is given to the occasional cat that is taken, but billions of birds and mammals are tortured by cats, many times just for fun.

"Outdoor cats are the leading cause of death among both birds and mammals in the United States, according to a new study, killing 1.4 billion to 3.7*billion birds each year.

The mammalian toll is even higher, concluded researchers from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, ranging from 6.9 billion to 20.7*billion annually."

And without this predation, would the same number of birds and small mammals have starved to death??? It's similar to hunters and the deer population when their numbers exceed the food supply