Outdoor Cats

Every year in the United States, cats kill well over 1 billion birds. This stunning level of predation is unsustainable for many already-declining species like Least Tern and Wood Thrush.

Most raptors are less likely to fall prey to cats, and cats don’t kill many raptors outright. But cats do kill many small rodents, which reduces food resources for true natural predators like raptors and owls.

In early 2018 the 17 Western States’ Governors included feral cats in their top 50 list of invasive species.