European starlings (почти Хичкок)
Feb. 12th, 2012 05:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauerzThere are 200 million in North America descended from 60 to 100 birds released in Central Park, New York by Eugene Schieffelin. He was president of the infamous American Acclimatization Society which tried to introduce every bird species mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare to North America in 1890, and this turned into a terrible environmental disaster.
Being an introduced species European starlings are exempt from the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Starlings are among the worst nuisance species in North America. The birds travel in enormous flocks; pose danger to air travel; disrupt farms; displace native birds; and roost on city blocks. Corrosive droppings on structures cause hundreds of millions of dollars of yearly damage. In 2008 the U.S. government poisoned, shot or trapped 1.7 million, the most of any nuisance species.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Starling#Behaviour
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Schieffelin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasive_species
Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migratory_Bird_Treaty_Act
Being an introduced species European starlings are exempt from the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Starlings are among the worst nuisance species in North America. The birds travel in enormous flocks; pose danger to air travel; disrupt farms; displace native birds; and roost on city blocks. Corrosive droppings on structures cause hundreds of millions of dollars of yearly damage. In 2008 the U.S. government poisoned, shot or trapped 1.7 million, the most of any nuisance species.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Starling#Behaviour
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Schieffelin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasive_species
Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migratory_Bird_Treaty_Act
