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Welcome 2023! Here at Birdsbesafe headquarters in Vermont, we are turning a page in our calendar and making plans to protect more birds from cats, with your help, in the new year!

We thought we heard something about it being Bird Monday, so we have put several of our bird-protecting Birdsbesafe cat collars on sale for the day. Look for them on the shopping page. If your cat goes outdoors, protect the birds in your yard with our bright-colored cat collar. It's proven to be highly effective! And thanks for caring about cats and birds!

We just received a mention in a feature article in The Guardian (UK). Their story focused on the different options for controlling cat predation on birds, including confinement indoors, restricting outdoor hours, and our "colourful" cat products that use bright colors to warn birds of a cat's presence. You can read the whole article, "Is it Time to End Cats' Right to Roam?" here.

When I started Birdsbesafe company in 2009, after inventing the product for my own cat, George, I did not imagine how many scientific field studies would eventually test the product's effectiveness. That number rose to seven studies, this week, with the publication of the Swiss field study being published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.

Happy Spring, cat owners and bird lovers. Along with spring rain and greening plant growth, the the migratory songbirds are returning to the north of North America and other northern latitudes. In my yard, we celebrate the first American Robins coming to look for a nesting habitat. Their singing at dawn and dusk ushers in the welcome retreat of wintertime, while our last snowbank melts. Where we live, birdfeeders are removed for the warm months, to avoid attracting black bears!

After Covid conditions suspended USPS service to Australia and New Zealand last September, we are glad to announce we are able to resume US First Class Package shipment to Australia and New Zealand.

We hear from people and from groups, wanting to know if we would recommend using the Birdsbesafe® cat collar cover on feral cats. Sorry, no, we don't recommend it at this time. Our pet product is a well-designed, validate solution for protecting birds from pet cats is not really a great match for feral cats.