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To: maceng2 who wrote (1523172)2/16/2025 2:49:42 PM
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Cat related bird deaths

Raptors such as eagles, hawks, falcons, birds of prey, are apex predators. Cats do not kill them. Windmills do. And they kill lots of them..



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Each year over 500,000 birds die worldwide due to oil spills.


Birds and Oil Spills - Ornithology


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The Soaring Deepwater Horizon Bird Death Count

Ocean Conservancy

May 22, 2014 — According to a new study, scientists estimate that between 600,000 and 800,000 coastal seabirds died because of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil ...

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Avian mortality at oil pits in the United States

National Institutes of Health (NIH) (.gov)

by PW Trail · 2006 · Cited by 56 — Based on Forensics Laboratory and USFWS field data, oil pits currently cause the deaths of 500,000-1 million birds per year.