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A Third of North America’s Birds Have Vanished (nautil.us)

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2.9 billion breeding birds disappeared since the early 1970s

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[–] slugworth 19 points 2 years ago

Cats, both domestic and feral kill between 500 million and 4 billion per year. More people need to keep bells on their cats if they let them outdoors to give birds a chance.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cats-kill-more-one-billion-birds-each-year

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