Nightly News   |  January 31, 2013

Cats respond to scathing study

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. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.

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>>> we reported an item here last night that appeared in the "new york times", among other places. the result of an exhaustive new study containing overwhelming evidence that cats are bird murderers. the numbers are astounding. cats, they say, kill as many as 3.7 billion birds per year in just the united states . well, as you might imagine, we heard from some viewers. magoo of wickford, rhode island sent us this, quote, i am not a bird murderer, no matter what brian williams says on nbc news. don't judge me. end of quote. the bird community has so far been silent, perhaps because their ranks have been decimated.