A federal study underlines the extent to which Canada is a perilous place for birds
MONTREAL - It isn’t the fact that 269 million birds are now estimated to die from human-related activities each year in Canada that surprises wildlife scientist Richard Elliot.
What really stuns him about a landmark federal study on bird mortality in this country is that cats account for 75 per cent of those deaths, killing more birds than all other causes combined. (The study categorizes house cats as a human-related source of mortality for birds, although the number of deaths attributed to feline attacks also includes those by feral cats.)
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