^^ I do believe cats kill birds, but 2.4 billion per year?!
My link above says we’ve seen 2.9 billion disappear since the 1970s, so if the Wintuauduban society is claiming that cats kill 2.4 billion per year, I don’t think there would be any birds on the planet! Also, if it were true, then pesticides, deforestation, invasive species, hunting and climate change have very little effect on the disappearance of birds, so why should we worry about them? The cats killed the vast majority of the birds!
I would love to see any respectable study that makes that claim.
“A University of Nebraska study pins thirty-three bird extinctions on cat predation worldwide.” Where’s their link to this claim? Where’s the study?
They may have good intentions – to help save birds – but they’re not going about it very well by making outrageous claims with no backup.