It required a bit of an ethical adjustment. Here I was, sitting patiently in a blind, watching a tethered European Starling on a string....
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There’s an apartment building just across the alley from mine. It’s a real…”fixer upper” to say the least. It’s been...
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“Nay, I’ll have a starling shall be taught to speak nothing but ‘Mortimer,’”: – Henry IV, Part 1 And with that line from the...
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Throughout most of North America, European Starling is a four letter word. There are groups dedicated to species like Eastern Bluebirds and Purple Martins...
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One day my wildlife rehabilitator friend Marilyn brought me a black shoebox decorated with 6 or 8 quarter-sized holes. Energetically sticking his head out,...
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Everyone probably knows the story of how the European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) came to the shores of America during the 19th century, but for...
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SUPER STARLINGS Tanzania plays host to a wide variety of Starlings, over twenty species in fact. In California we have the feisty intelligent generalist...
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Now that there are 7 billi0n of us on this planet, it seems appropriate to look at and appreciate other great big collections of...
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