http://mypurplemartinblog.com/2009/07/its-not-about-your-cat-its-about-my-birds/ Daily comings and goings of a Purple Martin bird colony and information to help you attract them to your yard Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:38:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://mypurplemartinblog.com/2009/07/its-not-about-your-cat-its-about-my-birds/comment-page-1/#comment-158 BirdAdvocate Sun, 19 Jul 2009 08:26:09 +0000 http://mypurplemartinblog.com/?p=726#comment-158 (Sounds of loud applause from the audience!) Thank you, that was very well put! I'll add a link on my blog directing our traffic here. Also, here's a study I found citing cats effects on birds and rodents you may find interesting: <em>Dr. Cole Hawkins conducted a study of two grassland parks in the East Bay Regional Park District in California--one with no cats and one where over 20 cats were being fed daily. The study found that there were almost twice as many birds in the park without cats as in the park with cats. California Thrasher and California Quail, two common ground-dwelling birds, were always seen in the park without cats but were never seen in the park with cats. In addition, over 85 percent of the native deer and harvest mice trapped were in the park without cats, whereas over 75 percent of the house mice (an exotic pest) trapped were in the park with cats. </em> https://www.denix.osd.mil/denix/Public/ES-Programs/Conservation/Legacy/SafeCats/faq_commanders.html (Sounds of loud applause from the audience!) Thank you, that was very well put! I’ll add a link on my blog directing our traffic here. Also, here’s a study I found citing cats effects on birds and rodents you may find interesting:
Dr. Cole Hawkins conducted a study of two grassland parks in the East Bay Regional Park District in California–one with no cats and one where over 20 cats were being fed daily. The study found that there were almost twice as many birds in the park without cats as in the park with cats. California Thrasher and California Quail, two common ground-dwelling birds, were always seen in the park without cats but were never seen in the park with cats. In addition, over 85 percent of the native deer and harvest mice trapped were in the park without cats, whereas over 75 percent of the house mice (an exotic pest) trapped were in the park with cats.
https://www.denix.osd.mil/denix/Public/ES-Programs/Conservation/Legacy/SafeCats/faq_commanders.html

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