Do domestic cats impose an unsustainable harvest on urban bird populations

By Y. Heezik, A. Smyth, A. L. Adams, J. Gordon. 2010

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Direct human‐caused mortality of birds: improving quantification of magnitude and assessment of population impact (2012, unknown): “2009; van Heezik et al .”
Escape behaviour of birds provides evidence of predation being involved in urbanization (2012, background): “However, even if there is a higher density of potential predators in urban environments, this may not necessarily translate into a higher predation rate becausemany predators such as corvids and catsmainly rely on food provided by humans (van Heezik et al. 2010; Stracey 2011; Tschanz et al. 2011).”
New Zealand pest management: current and future challenges (2015, background): “Proposed control of species such as cats generates a great deal of heated debate (http://garethsworld.com/catstogo/); while domestic cats are companion animals, do‐ mestic and feral cats are also major predators in New Zealand ecosystems (van Heezik et al. 2010).”
How many birds are killed by cats in Australia (2017, background): “…kill 15.6 birds cat−1 yr−1 is within the range reported by studies elsewhere in the world: for example, 5 birds cat−1 yr−1 in Dunedin (New Zealand) (van Heezik et al., 2010), 5.9 birds cat−1 yr−1 in Bristol (England) (Baker et al., 2005), 12 birds cat−1 yr−1 in rural environments and 30 birds…”
Quantifying free-roaming domestic cat predation using animal-borne video cameras (2013, unknown): “van Heezik et al. (2010) New Zealand 34.”
Individual hunting behaviour and prey specialisation in the house cat Felis catus: Implications for conservation and management (2015, background): “…instance, prey return data are subject to several potential biases including mis-identification of prey, under-reporting by survey participants (van Heezik et al., 2010), under-estimation of the numbers of prey that are killed (Kays and DeWan, 2004; Loyd et al., 2013; Woods et al., 2003), and…”
Direct Mortality of Birds from Anthropogenic Causes (2015, unknown): “…scale for panel a and the absolute scale for panel b (estimate sources: Longcore et al. 2012, Calvert et al. 2013, Loss et al. 2013a,b, 2014a–c). cat predation increases the probability of population extinction or decline for some bird species (van Heezik et al. 2010, Balogh et al. 2011).”
Biology and Impacts of Pacific Island Invasive Species. 7. The Domestic Cat (Felis catus)1 (2012, unknown): “Van Heezik et al. (2010) found that predation by free-ranging domestic cats in one New Zealand city was sufficient to make the continued presence of several bird populations possible only through immigration from surrounding areas.”
Fearing the feline: domestic cats reduce avian fecundity through trait-mediated indirect effects that increase nest predation by other species (2013, background): “Journal of Applied Ecology © 2013 British Ecological Society controversial and unresolved (Churcher & Lawton 1987; Woods, McDonald & Harris 2003; Baker et al. 2008; Sims et al. 2008; van Heezik et al. 2010).”
Non-native species in urban environments: patterns, processes, impacts and challenges (2017, background): “For example, few non-native species elicit a more divergent set of opinions than domestic cats—introduced to cities worldwide, loved by many, but a major source of mortality for wildlife, particularly birds (van Heezik et al. 2010).”
Habitat urbanization and its effects on birds (2015, background): “…or predation rates per se, but also the availability, density and population size of their prey species at the same time (e.g. as done by van Heezik et al. 2010) would be helpful in identifying susceptible wild species and their characteristics, and also to determine whether the…”
Population impacts of free‐ranging domestic cats on mainland vertebrates (2017, background): “…that predation by pet cats led to a high probability of population extinction for the native silvereye (Zosterops lateralis) (37–99% and 40–99% after 50 and 100 years, respectively) and nonnative common blackbird (68–100% and 88–100% after 50 and 100 years, respectively) (Van Heezik et al. 2010).”