Absolutely. It’s freaky how similar it sounds when you hear it in person when a dog finds a litter of baby bunnies, or the cat finds some mice.
Had a cat who had tooth problems. She stopped hunting because of it. After treatment, she became so happy, I could hear her chirps outside from my room. The birds weren’t happy about it. Luckily, she became almost tooth and fangless, so I had been able to save the birds each time after.
Male cats are lazy as fuck, and don’t hunt. At least mine didn’t. But that one tortie was a menace…
If you put food in their bowl and leave them inside you don’t have to worry about your little genocide machine hunting the birds at all