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krv3000:
HI Bogs nice to see a helping hand with wild life I dont feed in the sumer munths but in the winter time im out with me winter feeders just a tip have you tride growing sunflawers i grow them in grow bags just for the seeds  dont tac a lot of looking after just a watering gnaw and then  and the burds love them  regards    bob

Bernd:

--- Quote from: websterz on June 13, 2011, 08:55:00 PM ---We have more starlings than we can keep killed here. They (The US Starlings at least) are rats with wings. Nasty disease carriers that excel at destroying songbird nests and decimating less aggressive species. I kill them on sight.  :hammer:

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Same problem here in NY. I've seen a starling rip apart a Blue Bird nest. I sent him/her to Starling Heaven. One also tried to destroy a Pyrple Martin nest. Sent him/her to the same place.

Here are some stat's from Wikipedia about this bird. Starling Scroll down to North American and read the stat's on this bird. Interesting thing is that it was improted in 1890 by Eugene Schiefelin to Central Park, New York. 60 to 100 birds were released. Now an estimated 200 Million exsist with no natrual predetor other than man.

The Starling in the US has no prdetator to keep it's population down as in Europe where, as Bog's said, the Magpie feeds on Starling's.

Bernd

Bogstandard:
Actually, most, but not all of our starlings go south for the winter, a lot of them ending up in Africa and most warm countries on the way.

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