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The housecat is Wildlife Enemy number one, having destroyed at least 33 bird species worldwide.

The housecat is Wildlife Enemy number one, having destroyed at least 33 bird species worldwide. It looks like we humans aren’t the biggest animal destroyers after all. The house cat kills at least 480 million birds every year- in just the United States. There is a cost to this too, according to a report from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Bird predation by cats results in a loss of $17 billion each year. In the US, there are 60 million cats. Though it’s known that these cats kill 8 birds a...

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Published By: OMGFacts - Wednesday, 8 August, 2012

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