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It’s time to treat cats like we treat dogs

Cats. It’s the four-letter word of bird conservation.

For over a century, ornithologists have been sounding the alarm about cats and their impacts on the environment. Whether owned, stray, or feral, roaming domestic cats hunt and kill the

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