Proponents of collecting counter-argue that compared to the many millions of birds killed each year by habitat destruction, domestic cats, window strikes, and tower kills, scientists collect only a few thousand birds per year worldwide and populations will quickly recover from an episode of collecting as long as their habitat remains.
This is a very small proportion of the direct human-caused mortality to birds, which has been estimated at 300 2,300 million birds per year due to (in descending order of importance) cats, windows in buildings, poison, transmission lines and communication towers, cars, and oil and waste water pits [26].
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The two biggest feeder-induced causes of death for birds are "cats and windows," Mr. Kress said.
"I'd been doing some work on a Brighton housing estate, where there was concern about kids firing airguns at cats and windows.
By leaving the house 10 minutes earlier, we arrived at the school at the same time as usual, having had the pleasure of one anothers' company, plus time to dawdle, point at cats in windows, blow dandelion seeds, squabble and, yes, get in a little bit of exercise.
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She recalls her father's using a pot of boiling water to scald an annoying, howling cat under their window.
During the night the wife awoke and found her cat on the window sill its fur bristling.
The home run flew and so did the cat — out the window — the future comedian throwing Ezzard, who clawed a curtain and lived.
