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November 24, 2024
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Seattle cats kill as many as 8.1 million birds a year

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear
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Using the baseline figures provided by researchers who determined that cats in America kill upwards of 3.7 billion birds, we determined that Seattle’s roughly 328,000 feral and domestic cats kill between 3.8 million and 8.1 million birds (all numbers are wild estimations, but then so were theirs). One of the biggest stories of the day has been a study declaring that cats in America kill between 1.4 billion and 3.7 billion birds and between 6.9 billion and 20.7 billion small mammals, such as meadow voles and chipmunks. The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, focused mainly on feral or free-roaming cats. The authors are particularly worried about the damage […]

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Jodi Rave Spotted Bear
jodi@imfreedomalliance.org https://twitter.com/JodiRave

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear is the founder and director of the Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance, a 501-C-3 nonprofit organization with offices in Bismarck, N.D. and the Fort Berthold Reservation. Jodi spent 15 years reporting for the mainstream press. She's been awarded prestigious Nieman and John S. Knight journalism fellowships at Harvard and Stanford, respectively. She also an MIT Knight Science Journalism Project fellow. Her writing is featured in "The Authentic Voice: The Best Reporting on Race and Ethnicity," published by Columbia University Press. Jodi currently serves as a Society of Professional Journalists at-large board member, an SPJ Foundation board member, and she chairs the SPJ Freedom of Information Committee. Jodi has won top journalism awards from mainstream and Native press organizations. She earned her journalism degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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