Thread: Feral Cats

Originally Posted by thatguy

Thanks @steveg for the link.

My concern with the study, and sorry if I might have missed the point, is that the food type was measured by weight.

Concluding that on 4.5% (in weight) of their diet was made up of bird remains, does not really paint an accurate picture.

What it suggests is that they don’t eat many birds. Well by weight, you’d need about 6-43 Tui’s for example, weighing 58-150g, to make up one rabbit for example, weighing 1000-2500g.

What this means is yes, by weight, birds don’t represent the majority, but by numbers (which is what’s important) they do..

edit:
By numbers they make up a bigger portion what what the study suggests - I’d imagine.