In article , Nick Maclaren
writes
| A few years ago there was an article in the telegraph about some
| research that had been carried out at great expense to the tax payer.
| The result of this research was that there are fewer birds per square
| area measurement (can't remember what the units were) in areas where
| there were cats than in areas where there were no cats. (Well, I could
| have told them that and saved the tax payer a lot of money!!)
|
| So, when the cat population increases to the extent that there are no
| cat free areas, we can say that cats will have a very definite impact on
| bird populations UK wide!!!!

As I pointed out a while back, that happened some time ago over much
of the UK. We don't have PROOF that cats are a main reason (note
'a' not 'the') for the recent declines, but the evidence is pretty
strong.

We need some lynx!

And with the loss of habitat and effects of pesticides etc the cat
threat may be just one enemy too far...
--
David