Impact of predation by domestic cats Felis catus in an urban area

By P. J. Baker, A. Bentley, Rachel J. Ansell, S. Harris. 2005

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How many birds are killed by cats in Australia (2017, background): “9 birds cat yr in Bristol (England) (Baker et al., 2005), 12 birds cat yr in rural environments and 30 birds cat yr in urban environments in Poland (Krauze-Gryz et al.”
Individual hunting behaviour and prey specialisation in the house cat Felis catus: Implications for conservation and management (2015, background): “Domestic cats can e expected to consume some prey and to leave other prey n situ after subduing it, and hence may return only a fracion of the prey that they kill (e.g. Baker et al., 2005; Lepczyk t al., 2003; Tschanz et al., 2011).”
Birds in Urban Ecosystems: Population Dynamics, Community Structure, Biodiversity, and Conservation (2015, background): “Baker et al. (2005) studied the impacts of cats on urban animals, including birds in Bristol, UK, and noted a prey preference for juvenile birds.”
Direct human‐caused mortality of birds: improving quantification of magnitude and assessment of population impact (2012, background): “Interpreting mortality estimates in the context of population models can provide a more complete picture of population impacts than is possible by solely quantifying mortality as a percentage of estimated population sizes (Churcher and Lawton 1987; Baker et al. 2005).”
Avian assemblage structure and domestic cat densities in urban environments (2007, background): “It is perhaps particularly noteworthy that cat densities correlate positively with those of the house sparrow, as this is typically the avian species found to be most commonly taken by cats in Britain and has previously been identified as potentially vulnerable to the impact of cat predation (Church”
Interspecific variation in avian blood parasites and haematology associated with urbanization in a desert habitat (2008, background): “…and Thompson 2006), human disturbance (Fernandez-Juricic et al. 2001), noise (Slabbekoorn and Peet 2003), feral predation (Woods et al. 2003, Baker et al. 2005), introduced competitors (White et al. 2005), exposure to toxins (Eens et al. 1999), artificial lighting (Longcore and Rich 2004),…”
Habitat urbanization and its effects on birds (2015, background): “…predator (e.g. Thomas et al. 2012), and readily hunt down wild species even when being subsidized, it is not surprising that cat predation is considered among the most important human-related causes of bird mortality (Baker et al. 2005, Dauphiné et al. 2009, Stracey et al. 2011, Loss et al. 2013).”
Cats about town: is predation by free‐ranging pet cats Felis catus likely to affect urban bird populations? (2008, methodology): “as this is a modified approach to the method employed for estimating density and productivity in our original analysis (Baker et al. 2005), we have recalculated the predation rates and impacts for the pilot study area in this paper.”
Urban bird declines and the fear of cats (2007, background): “The widespread and on-going decline of rural and urban bird populations is a critical conservation issue (Gering & Blair, 1999; Marzluff, Bowman & Dennelly, 2001; McKinney, 2002; Crick et al., 2003; Thorington & Bowman, 2003; DEFRA, 2004b; Baker et al., 2005; Pauchard et al., 2006).”