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And no doubt Patrick, raptors on roosts, fox and other
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native predators wouldn't kill birds!
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Is that what you saying?
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The cure would be worse than the decease!
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Nick - that's what barn cats are for - keeping populations
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of rodents and flying rodents under control. Pigeons, starlings
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sparrows - the English kind are all rodents.
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The cats help keep a barn clean and do their best
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work at night when its dark!
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Imagion telling a farmer to lock up his cats at night - near as bad
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as the fellow who wanted the farmer to delay cutting his hay for so=
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yes Darrell, they have an impact. My point is that this factor is =
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climate change
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land use (e.g. short rotation forestry)
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pesticides
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oil?
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Cats, cars, windturbines, reflective glass would be minor in comp=
arison and I'd suggest we first focus on the major causes of decline an=
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eliminate as they are part of our life style:
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1. Cat--keep cat in at night, fix feral cats and get them places
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2. Car--slow down..I killed a swallow last year when in what I th=
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3. Windturbines--research placement of windmills out of flight pa=
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4, Glass--hard to know how to reduce bird impacts on existing win=
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We won't get anywhere legislating that cats be not allowed ou=
t but increasing attention on barn populations and making people responsibl=
e (or finding funding for) for fixing barn cats on their property, then sug=
gesting that owners keep their cats in at dusk and night, will have impacts=
. Currently, this negative focus on cats creates the impression that a biod=
iversity crisis is the fault of cats not their humans who may also drive ca=
rs profligately and eat crops grown using neonicotinoids.
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