Predation of wildlife by domestic cats Felis catus in Great Britain

By M. Woods, R. Mcdonald, S. Harris. 2003

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Introduced cats (Felis catus) eating a continental fauna: The number of mammals killed in Australia (2019, background): “Predation of wildlife by domestic cats Felis catus in 866 Great Britain.”
Home Range, Habitat Use, and Activity Patterns of Free-Roaming Domestic Cats (2011, background): “For example, domestic cats (hereafter, cats) depredate a variety of wildlife, particularly small mammals and birds (e.g., Jones and Coman 1981, Liberg 1984, Mitchell and Beck 1992, Woods et al. 2003).”
Effect of landscape context on anuran communities in breeding ponds in the National Capital Region, Canada (2007, background): “Urban land use is also associated with increased human recreational use and increased predation by domestic animals (Woods et al. 2003).”
A global review of the impacts of invasive cats on island endangered vertebrates (2011, background): “All islands have been included with the exception of Great Britain, Australia and the two largest islands of New Zealand, where feral cat impacts have been reviewed elsewhere (see Dickman, 1996; Taylor, 2000; Woods et al., 2003; Gillies & Fitzgerald, 2005).”
Birds in Urban Ecosystems: Population Dynamics, Community Structure, Biodiversity, and Conservation (2015, background): “In Britain, cats have been shown to hunt millions of birds per year (Woods et al., 2003).”
The Importance of Wild-Animal Suffering (2015, background): “For instance, domesticated cats kill in painful ways hundreds of millions to billions of rabbits, mice, and birds (Woods et al. 2003; Loss 2013).”
How many birds are killed by cats in Australia (2017, background): “…killed per year include 100–350 million birds killed by cats in Canada (Blancher, 2013), about 27 million birds killed by pet cats in Great Britain (Woods et al., 2003), 240 million birds killed by feral cats in the United States (Pimentel et al., 2005), with a more substantial evidence base (a)…”
Barriers to movement: impacts of wind farms on migrating birds (2009, background): “…of Nysted is just one of many ways in which human activities impact on bird populations, others being collisions with buildings, predation by domestic animals, climate change, and hunting (Woods et al., 2003; Erickson et al., 2005; Veltri and Klem, 2005; Huntley et al., 2007; Kurle et al., 2008).”
Interspecific variation in avian blood parasites and haematology associated with urbanization in a desert habitat (2008, background): “…et al. 2003, Burhans 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…”
Urbanization, nestling growth and reproductive success in a moderately declining house sparrow population (2012, background): “Third, urban parents may suffer increased mortality by collisions with vehicles (Heij and Moeliker 1990) or predation by the growing numbers of domestic cats (Woods et al. 2003) and urbanizing raptors (Bell et al. 2010).”
Quantifying free-roaming domestic cat predation using animal-borne video cameras (2013, background): “Previous studies of pet cat predation (Baker et al., 2005; Barratt, 1997; Churcher and Lawton, 1987; Crooks and Soulé, 1999; Lepczyk et al., 2004; Tschanz et al., 2011; van Heezik et al., 2010; Woods et al., 2003) collected information from homeowners on the type and frequency of prey returned to th”
Food for thought: supplementary feeding as a driver of ecological change in avian populations (2008, background): “Where population densities are high, the risk to individual birds is reduced via dilution and/or increased vigilance, and the presence of feeders has been associated with lower levels of predation by domestic cats (Woods et al. 2003).”