Birds in Australia face an onslaught from both feral and domestic cats, which kill more than one million of them every day. The figure is revealed by a new study, published in Biological Conversation, that found that wild cats killed 316 million birds every year, while pets killed 61 million. "Everyone knows that cats kill birds, but this study shows that, at a national level, the amount of predation is staggering," said lead researcher John Woinarski from Charles Darwin University in a statement reported by Phys.org.
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