Wonderful story. All we, as a "civilized" society, have to do is look in the mirror to find out who is destroying the earth. Perhaps it isn't pretty if you witness a cat eating a bird but its the way nature meant it to be. Its called the "food chain". I wonder if this man eats beef, chicken or pork. Perhaps if he witnessed what the cows, chickens and pigs have to go through he might change his mind. A man kills a deer or a duck, its called sport. We are a hypocritical society. This man kills a cat for doing something that comes naturally. It doesn't make sense. He kills one to save another. Where is the logic to this?

Thank you for sharing this great article! As Brenda said, we only have to look in the mirror to see who is causing the destruction of our world. As the article states, there needs to be more focus on how we humans are destroying habitats, etc. and less on the minor outlying factors like feral cats being the cause of damage on bird populations. In fact, again, it is humans who cause this as well. By not spaying or neutering cats, by dumping them where ever because they don't want to care for them any more, so on and so forth, humans caused the feral cats colonies to multiply. We need to step back and take a look at what we are doing to the earth. We need to change our ways before it is too late.

Thank you for making such an interesting article more widely available.
Although my comment is a plug for my product, I think it has relevance. I have first hand experience with people and organizations blaming cats to the exclusion of all other causes of bird numbers decline. My company makes a product, the CatBib, that stops cats from catching birds (scientific field study proved it worked, and the results were published in Biological Conservation July 2007). I thought Audubon would fall over themselves thanking me for inventing such a product....not so. After 10 years of ignoring the CatBib, Audubon magazine did finally mention it in their Jan-Feb 2008 issue. Albeit begrudgingly...as they didn't give the name of the product, or where to purchase it. For 10 years they have preferred their message "keep cats indoors" rather than making room for a practical solution, the CatBib.