Cat and Duckling
Pencil Drawing
Darryl Wheye
1998
Feral cats wreak havoc on songbird populations,
killing an estimated 600 million in the U.S. annually. They
have also been implicated in raptor declines in some areas by
reducing rodent populations. The effect on ground-nesting lake
and pond avian populations should come as no surprise.
Stanford's volunteer-driven Cat Network
has been monitoring (and altering) the campus feral cat population
for ten years. This donation-funded network (www.stanford.edu/group/
CATNET) estimates the 1999 feline population at about 150, down
from 500 a decade ago.
