Feeding Ecology of a Feral Cat Population on a Small Mediterranean Island

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Feral cat diet and impact on sooty terns at Juan de Nova Island, Mozambique Channel (2008, result): “Nonetheless, the dietary analysis confirms, as in many previous studies, that cats are generalist predators that consume a wide range of prey types (Nogales &Medina, 1996; Lozano, Moleon & Virgos, 2006; Medina & Garcı́a, 2007; Bonnaud et al., 2007).”
The diet of feral cats on islands: a review and a call for more studies (2011, background): “Birds were important on islands that harbour important colonies of seabirds and, in these cases, they constitute the main source of biomass in the diet of feral cats (Jones and Barmuta 1998; Bonnaud et al. 2007; Nogales and Medina 2009, Peck et al. 2008, Faulquier et al. 2009).”
Intraguild predation and mesopredator release effect on long-lived prey (2009, background): “Obserations of introduced cats on islands have shown that seabirds ppear to be preferentially predated, followed by introducedmamals such as rats,mice and rabbits, andonly thendo landbirds form small part of cat diet (e.g. Harper, 2005; Bonnaud et al., 2007; Peck t al., 2008).”