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title: "A feral cat is filmed removing a Streaked Shearwater chick from its burrow"
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# A feral cat is filmed removing a Streaked Shearwater chick from its burrow

Tatsuya Shiozaki ([Graduate School of Environmental Studies](http://www.env.nagoya-u.ac.jp/english/), Nagoya University, Japan) and colleagues have published in Japanese in the [Japanese Journal of Ornithology](https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/jjo/63/1/_contents) on a feral cat *Felis catus* entering the metre-long burrow of a Streaked Shearwater *Calonectris leucomelas* and removing the chick.  The article also describes egg predation by a Large-billed Crow *Corvus macrorhynchos* and chick predation by a Japanese Rat Snake *Elaphe climacophora*.

 ![](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Shearwaters/feral_cat_port_cros_jrme_legrand.jpg)

 Feral cats prey upon shearwater chicks, photograph by Jerome Legrand

 Click [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDvXbfLsV6Q) to view the Infrared video camera film from August 2012 of the predation event. 

 **Reference:**

 Shiozaki, T., Shirai, M., Osugi, M., Yamamoto, M. & Yoda, M.. 2014.  Predation by feral cat on Streaked Shearwater chicks on Awashima.  [*Japanese Journal of Ornithology*63: 75-78](https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jjo/63/1/63_75/_pdf) [in Japanese].

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 18 October 2015*