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Responding to pressure from bird watchers and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, President Obama today announced his plans to impose a “fly zone” to help stop the slaughter of millions of birds by their longtime arch-enemy, cats.

Pentagon experts are scratching their heads, trying to figure out exactly how this “fly zone” (or no-cat zone, as insiders are calling it) will be created.

The New York Times reported today, in an article titled "Tweety Was Right: Cats Are a Bird’s No. 1 Enemy," that birds are getting wiped out by cats across the country, according to a new study. “A new study in The Journal of Ornithology on the mortality of baby gray catbirds in the Washington suburbs found that cats were the No. 1 killer in the area, by a large margin. Nearly 80 percent of the birds were killed by predators, and cats were responsible for 47 percent of those deaths, according to the researchers, from the Smithsonian Institution a! nd Towson University in Maryland. Death rates were particularly high in neighborhoods with large cat populations.”

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