Editing Cat (section)

=== Impact on wildlife ===
{{main|Cat predation on wildlife}}
[[File:Feral_Cat_(5573630708).jpg|thumb|Cats kill billions of wild birds each year. This feral cat near [[Brisbane]] has caught a [[Pale-headed rosella]].]]
On islands, birds can contribute as much as 60% of a cat's diet.<ref name="Fitzgerald">{{Cite book |last1=Fitzgerald |first1=M. B. |last2=Turner |first2=Dennis C. |title=The Domestic Cat: The Biology of its Behaviour |editor-last1=Turner |editor-first1=Dennis C. |editor2-last=Bateson |editor2-first=Patrick P. G. |pages=151–175 |chapter=Hunting Behaviour of Domestic Cats and Their Impact on Prey Populations}}</ref> Domestic cats are a contributing factor to the decline of several species, a factor that has ultimately led, in some cases, to extinction. [[Turnagra capensis|The South Island piopio]], [[Rallus modestus|Chatham rail]],<ref name="Mead 1982 183–186" /> and the [[New Zealand merganser]]<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Stattersfield |first1=A. J. |last2=Crosby |first2=M. J. |last3=Long |first3=A. J. |last4=Wege |first4=D. C. |title=Endemic Bird Areas of the World: Priorities for Biodiversity Conservation |date=1998 |publisher=Burlington Press |isbn=9780946888337 |series="BirdLife Conservation" series No. 7 |location=Cambridge, England}}</ref> are a few from a long list, with the most extreme case being the flightless [[Lyall's wren]], which was driven to extinction only a few years after its discovery.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Falla |first=R. A. |title=New Zealand Bird Life Past and Present |date=1955 |publisher=[[Cawthron Institute]]}}{{page needed|date=November 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Galbreath |first1=R. |last2=Brown |first2=D. |year=2004 |title=The Tale of the Lighthouse-keeper's Cat: Discovery and Extinction of the Stephens Island Wren (''Traversia lyalli'') |url= http://www.notornis.org.nz/free_issues/Notornis_51-2004/Notornis_51_4_193.pdf |url-status=dead |journal=Notornis |volume=51 |pages=193–200 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081017221501/http://www.notornis.org.nz/free_issues/Notornis_51-2004/Notornis_51_4_193.pdf |archive-date=17 October 2008}}</ref> One feral cat in New Zealand killed 102 [[New Zealand lesser short-tailed bat]]s in seven days.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Scrimgeour |first1=J. |last2=Beath |first2=A. |last3=Swanney |first3=M. |year=2012 |title=Cat predation of short-tailed bats (''Mystacina tuberculata rhyocobia'') in Rangataua Forest, Mount Ruapehu, Central North Island, New Zealand |journal=New Zealand Journal of Zoology |volume=39 |issue=3 |pages=257–260 |doi=10.1080/03014223.2011.649770 |doi-access=free}}</ref> In the United States, feral and free-ranging domestic cats kill an estimated 6.3–22.3&nbsp;billion mammals annually.<ref name="NC012913" />

In Australia, one study found feral cats to kill 466 million reptiles per year. More than 258 reptile species were identified as being predated by cats.<ref>{{cite journal | last1=Woinarski | first1=J. C. Z. | last2=Murphy | first2=B. P. | last3=Palmer | first3=R. | last4=Legge | first4=S. M. | last5=Dickman | first5=C. R. | last6=Doherty | first6=T. S. | last7=Edwards | first7=G. | last8=Nankivell | first8=A. | last9=Read | first9=J. L. | last10=Stokeld | first10=D. | title=How many reptiles are killed by cats in Australia? | journal=Wildlife Research | publisher=CSIRO Publishing | volume=45 | issue=3 | year=2018 | issn=1035-3712 | doi=10.1071/wr17160 | page=247| bibcode=2018WildR..45..247W }}</ref> Cats have contributed to the extinction of the [[Navassa curly-tailed lizard]] and ''[[Chioninia coctei]].''<ref name="contr-ext">{{Cite journal |last1=Doherty |first1=T. S. |last2=Glen |first2=A. S. |last3=Nimmo |first3=D. G. |last4=Ritchie |first4=E. G. |last5=Dickman |first5=C. R. |year=2016 |title=Invasive predators and global biodiversity loss |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |volume=113 |issue=40 |pages=11261–11265 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1602480113 |pmc=5056110 |pmid=27638204 |bibcode=2016PNAS..11311261D |doi-access=free}}</ref>