That morning, she has had to bury a sapsucker that was injured by a cat. She worries because an increas-ing human presence in and around wild lands, with more vehicles on the roads, is placing birds and other animals under the ever increasing risk of injury. They're going to have more human contract. More things are going happen. One of the things Cejka tries to do in her work is make people more aware of how to prevent injury to birds in the first place.
Cats are the single greatest danger birds face, especially fledglings.
If people who know they have fledglings around would just bring their cats in for a few days, that could mean a lot. In most cases, the mother or father bird can move the fledgling and care for it until it can fly. After cats, Cejka said, the sec-ond most common cause of death in small birds is delaying treatment after an injury occurs. I've had birds come in here that people have had for months, and by then it's too late. He wasn't intimidated by humans at all.