Nightly News | January 30, 2013

Study: Cats are murderers

A new study by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and The Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute doesn’t mince words: Cats, it says, are bird killers. In the U.S. alone, they’re responsible for the deaths of up to 3.7 billion birds every year. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.

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>>> a new study by the u.s. fish and wildlife service says flat out, cats are bird murderers. they say in this country alone, cats are responsible for the deaths of as many as 3.7 billion birds every year, saying nothing of a higher number of small animals, mostly mice in the wrong place at the wrong time, quickly dispatched by cats. one smithsonian expert says he was stunned by the new numbers.

Study: Cats are murderers

A new study by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and The Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute doesn’t mince words: Cats, it says, are bird killers. In the U.S. alone, they’re responsible for the deaths of up to 3.7 billion birds every year. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.

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