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To: ColdOne
It's fun to slaughter such sacred cows (animal worship, environmentalism and other progressive/socialist propaganda putsches) with their own paradoxes and contradictions.

Putting Wind Power's Effect on Birds in Perspective

Mick Sagrillo, Sagrillo Power & Light Co.
AWEA

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Cats, both feral and housecats, also take their toll on birds. A Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) report states that, "recent research suggests that rural free-ranging domestic cats in Wisconsin may be killing between 8 and 217 million birds each year. The most reasonable estimates indicate that 39 million birds are killed in the state each year."

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Cats and Wildlife: A Conservation Dilemma p. 2.

Cats and Wildlife: A Conservation Dilemma; John S. Coleman, Stanley A. Temple, and Scott R. Craven; University of Wisconsin-Extension; 1997.

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In a few years, after the great bond collapse and repudiation of debt, spoiled, socialist suburbanites might be eating their "soulmates" (meow, ney, whinny, bark).


72 posted on 08/06/2012 3:34:22 PM PDT by familyop ("Wanna cigarette? You're never too young to start." --Deacon, "Waterworld")
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To: familyop
rural free-ranging domestic cats in Wisconsin may be killing between 8 and 217 million birds each year.

Between 8 and 217 million? That's the closest estimate they could get??? Yeah... sounds like a reliable statistic to me.

75 posted on 08/06/2012 3:45:02 PM PDT by workerbee (June 28, 2012 -- 9/11 From Within)
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