"Beautiful, clean coal."

Buht them be burd blenders!!!! 😵‍💫

Just make a bunch Beta-M units for household use

Cats are expert hunters

Gotta land sometime, bitch 🐈‍⬛

There's that time of the year when birds land, make nests, lay eggs and have to hang around to feed their young. That's a very vulnerable time for them. Make sure your bird house and bird feeder are cat proof.

I once physically removed a still living bird from my cats clutches and set it free. I saw him get it. Birds are just fucking oblivious. Standing around pecking at the ground and not checking their surroundings.

I had an indoor/outdoor cat that would catch birds at night, bring them home dead , and play with them.

What a mess.

Next cat would only go out during the day and lay around. He did manage to catch two rats

Many of these graphs were made to show that windmills do not really contribute to bird death.

From the wiki for bird-window collisions:

There are several methods of preventing bird-window strikes. The use of ultraviolet (UV) signals to make windows appear visible to birds, while once one of the most common means of combatting this issue, is no longer recommended by experts. This is because while some birds can see UV light, not all can. Other solutions include window film (as long as it is placed on the exterior of the glass) and ceramic frit glass (glass with fritdots).[30] Windows can also be covered with decals spaced no more than 5 cm horizontally or 10 cm vertically to prevent collisions.[31]

I had assumed it was cheaper to do dots, but it’s actually just more broadly effective. That’s a better reason :)

Dots are cheaper than UV filters and easier to apply retroactively. Both have the same effect of creating a visible obstruction for birds to discourage strikes.

Dots and UV are different solutions to the same problem, they both make the glass visible to birds. Its one or the other usually, not both.

The cats have a curfew? Have you met cats?

They have.

Birdsafe collars reduce bird catches by 87%. (A bell will reduce bird catches by 41%).

https://www.usgs.gov/publications/how-effective-birdsbesafer-cat-collar-reducing-bird-mortality-domestic-cats

I mean, we do need to ban humans for sure

I'd guess the largest chunk of that bar is vehicle-related emissions.

Domestic cats that go out to hunt aren't controlled by natural causes, like food availability for example. But they go out at night to hunt nonetheless, and they're usually in their peak conditions because they don't have to go hungry for long periods of time.

As numbers that I am aware of,

Cats kill an estimated 50-200 million birds annually in Germany, according to NABU and Max Planck Institute estimates

With a cat population of Germany approximately 15 million, most of which are permanently indoor, the rest are keeping themselves very busy for no reason

Birds that get eaten tend to have high reproductive rates, and if predator levels drop their population gets so high they start to die from hunger or disease (which spreads faster in crowded conditions). Many predators eat an incredible number of animals - a large owl may eat several small birds every day for itself, and a multiple of that if feeding nestlings. Cats aren't unique here.

Domestic cats can be a threat to specific populations already endangered by other factors, but usually those are ground animals. Cats being a threat to population levels of birds in most of the world just isn't believable to me.

I have always suspected it's a minor bit of public misdirection to keep the stray cat population down in North America. Other parts of the world have much larger numbers of outdoor cats and their bird populations are no worse off.

Where did all those stray feral cats come from?

They're pretty much all feral. Our well-fed house cats are killing at anything like that frequency.

so it’s a bit odd to me they’re not included

It's not actually, since that isn't what the graph is about.

I believe that chickens and other farm birds account for something like 50-60% of all the birds alive at any given time.

With some very hand-wavy maths I'd say its at least a 10x increase. ~50+ billion slaughtered for food vs ~4 billion from outdoor cats. Don't quote me on that, they're just the first two numbers I came across.

I'd argue it's somewhat fair to exclude agriculture from the original chart because the damage cats do to wild bird populations is off the charts and owners should recognise that reality.

I used to clean windows on big buildings. One time I was sent this new building that had just been put up in the span of about a year. They obviously didn't give a shit about any birds because when I was on their 7 floor patio one day I counted about 20 dead birds.

You could always tell they were pissed off. Visibly confused. But definitely pissed too.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9899435/

Any idea what they are? haven't seen those before, lol. But seriously, I'm curious

not nearly as loud and annoying as some people

Considering only two small sections of the Building are not all glass quite a lot.

I'd promote you for doing that