{"id":1334,"date":"2013-01-29T13:13:38","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T20:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1334"},"modified":"2013-01-29T13:13:38","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T20:13:38","slug":"roaming-cats-kill-up-to-3-7b-birds-annually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1334","title":{"rendered":"Roaming cats kill up to 3.7B birds annually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/photos\/spike-the-roadrunner-is-calling\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; display: inline\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DSC00943.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/photos\/spike-the-roadrunner-is-calling\/\">Spike<\/a> says, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Keep your cat indoors.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2013\/01\/29\/cats-wild-birds-mammals-study\/1873871\/\">Roaming cats kill up to 3.7B birds annually<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Cats that live in the wild or indoor pets allowed to roam outdoors kill from 1.4 billion to as many as 3.7 billion birds in the continental U.S. each year, says a new study that escalates a decades-old debate over the feline threat to native animals.  <\/p>\n<p>The <font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">estimates are much higher<\/font> than the hundreds of millions of annual bird deaths previously attributed to cats. The study also says that from 6.9 billion to as many as 20.7 billion mammals \u00e2\u20ac\u201d mainly mice, shrews, rabbits and voles \u00e2\u20ac\u201d are killed by cats annually in the Lower 48. The report is scheduled to be published Tuesday in <em>Nature Communications.<\/em>  <\/p>\n<p><font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">&#8220;I was stunned,&#8221;<\/font> said ornithologist Peter Marra of the Smithsonian&#8217;s Conservation Biology Institute. He and Smithsonian colleague Scott Loss, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Tom Will conducted the study.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2013\/01\/29\/cats-wild-birds-mammals-study\/1873871\/\">Roaming cats kill up to 3.7B birds annually<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spike says, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Keep your cat indoors.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Roaming cats kill up to 3.7B birds annually Cats that live in the wild or indoor pets allowed to roam outdoors kill from 1.4 billion to as many as 3.7 billion birds in the continental U.S. each year, says a new study that escalates a decades-old debate over the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1334\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Roaming cats kill up to 3.7B birds annually<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}