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"In his day job, he and his team at the migratory bird center track the global movements of birds and tease apart threats to their existence. He knows that birds … are the glue that binds healthy ecosystems together. 'Birds are critical,' he says. And outdoor cats, he and other ecologists have determined, are the leading human-influenced cause of dead birds."
A concerted effort to do something about it would of course be controversial. “That effort will require an ugly reality: the targeted killing of felines,” the story notes. “’No one likes the idea of killing cats,’ Marra concludes in his book. ‘But sometimes, it is necessary.’”
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