SCOUT· 68%31m·2026-11-05·ScienceOkay, but how bad are cats for birds?
E47. Cats kill billions of birds every year, but where does that number come from, and does the cat on your couch count? Dr. Pete Marra, dean of the Earth Commons at Georgetown University and co-author of Cat Wars, unpacks the science behind one of the most heated fights in bird conservation. Want to go deeper? Pick…
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“Good to know what research says about the predative effect on birds. That said, wild cats - genetically so similar to domestic cats that they interbreed and hybridize - certainly do exist in nature. The Scottish Wildcat native to Scotland,…”
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