sag@lemm.ee to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 2 years ago"Outdoor Cat vs Indoor Cat" by Sarah Andersenlemm.eeimagemessage-square57linkfedilinkarrow-up119arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squareCashewNut 🏴@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoNope. And the RSPB doesn’t believe cats are a concern: The UK’s largest bird charity, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), is not particularly concerned about the impact of cats on the British mainland. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/14/cats-kill-birds-wildlife-keep-indoors And a Bristol study found cats kill the “doomed” weak and sick birds - not healthy birds: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1474-919X.2008.00836.x
minus-squarethehatfox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoYes, according to the RSPB habitat destruction from expanding urban areas and farmland is the main threat to bird life in the UK. When my family had a cat it would mostly catch and bring home earthworms.
Nope. And the RSPB doesn’t believe cats are a concern:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/14/cats-kill-birds-wildlife-keep-indoors
And a Bristol study found cats kill the “doomed” weak and sick birds - not healthy birds: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1474-919X.2008.00836.x
Yes, according to the RSPB habitat destruction from expanding urban areas and farmland is the main threat to bird life in the UK.
When my family had a cat it would mostly catch and bring home earthworms.