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Common Starling
Sturnus vulgaris
29.5522, -90.7903
Field Notes
Description:
Seen this guy hanging out on a wire along the driveway to a trail I frequent. I thought it was a black bird at first but then noticed the feathers had white tips on them.
Notes:
European Starlings were first introduced to the United States in 1890. Rumor has it that one hundred starlings were released in Central Park in hopes that all of the birds mentioned in Shakespeare's works would become established in the New World. In the case of the starling, the wish became reality. In the intervening hundred years the starling population has grown to an estimated 150-200 million birds. (http://www.columbia.edu/itc/cerc/danoff-burg/invasion_bio/inv_spp_summ/…)
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Common Starling
Species ID Suggestions
1
Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedOctober 30, 2011
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