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Good point Nickolas!
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Us country folks had a different take on Starlings than the
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Ivory Tower gang.
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They are a very useful birds for consuming a large number of grubs in the spring time.
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A few days harrowing for potatoes or barley is sufficient to see their  worth.
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And they do provide lunch for various raptors.
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Opportunists from away were never in my bad books!
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Starlings never seem to be so plentiful in the country except in the fall at some places
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like Belle Isle where they gather.
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Enjoy the spring snow!
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On April 5, 2016 at 12:07 PM Nicholas Hill <fernhillns@gmail.com> wrote:
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Ian didn't use the word invasive. He was looking at these species as opportunists from away, much like ourselves, When even the opportunists are down, something may be up.
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On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 11:55 AM, Randy Lauff
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Well, a decline in any invasive is a good thing, but it would still be interesting to find out why. I'm wondering if better building techniques provide fewer nesting opportunities for them.
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Is there a decline in Europe, or other places where these birds have been introduced?
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On 9 March 2016 at 10:28, Ian McLaren
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<p>I was asked by a colleague about trends in Eur. Starling, and was surprised to see that they had steadily declined to about half their late 1960s population levels throughout the N. Am. Breeding Bird Survey area, and similarly locally (NS + PEI). Along with the sharper decline of House Sparrow, does this indicate that our human-dominated <span style="font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji',NotoColorEmoji,'Segoe UI Symbol','Android Emoji',EmojiSymbols; font-size: 18.66px;">landscapes have become inhospitable to these highly tolerant immigrants?  Seems almost as scary as the declines of many less immediately impacted species.</span></p>
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