Via Laura’s Birding Blog, David Sibley summarizes research about what kills birds. The design of the bar chart is unfortunate: Sibley is apparently trying to use bar lengths to represent estimated values in most cases and error ranges in others. Nevertheless, the take-away is that some of the high-profile causes of avian mortality (oil spills, collisions with wind turbines) are minor compared to the tolls taken by feral and domestic cats, and by collisions with windows.
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