Weird Facts I Learned from Books: Angel Catbird by Margaret Atwood

Who contributed to more extinctions of small birds in South Pacific Islands?  

I will admit it right now.  I am very behind on my Margaret Atwood reading.  Very, very behind.  I am reading the comic book series she authored in 2016 and is currently in its third volume.  I am so far behind, in fact, the compendium of the series has been published before I have even purchased volume three.  

However, this is not about my growing to be read pile in which books shift in importance and urgency.  We are here to talk about some weird facts.  Angel Catbird is a science super hero and gets his powers through a freak accident and a genetic experiment.  At the same time.  He and his compatriots are written by Margaret Atwood and drawn and inked by Johnnie Christmas and Tamra Bonvillain, which is the coolest last name ever.  

Back to the weird facts.  Throughout the text, Atwood includes various facts about cats, birds, and rats.  She includes websites on how to make your home bird friendly and information about the risks of declawing cats.   However, in Volume Two, Angel Catbird: To Castle Catula, Atwood informs her readers rats have contributed to forty-one of the 140 bird species which have gone extinct since 1500.  Cats, surprisingly, have only contributed to 34 extinctions.  Strange to think the predator of small birds have contributed less to killing them than something about the same size as the prey.